Narrating Muslim Sicily - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrating Muslim Sicily write by William Granara. This book was released on 2019. Narrating Muslim Sicily available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In 902 the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily fell, and the island would remain under Muslim control until the arrival of the Normans in the eleventh century. Drawing on a lifetime of translating and linguistic experience, William Granara here focuses on the various ways in which medieval Arab historians, geographers, jurists and philologists imagined and articulated their ever-changing identities in this turbulent period. All of these authors sought to make sense of the island's dramatic twists, including conquest and struggles over political sovereignty, and the painful decline of social and cultural life. Writing about Siqilliya involved drawing from memory, conjecture and then-current theories of why nations and people rose and fell. In so doing, Granara considers and translates, often for the first time, a vast range of primary sources - from the master chronicles of Ibn al-Athir and Ibn Khadun to biographical dictionaries, geographical works, legal treatises and poetry - and modern scholarship not available in English. He charts the shift from Sicily as 'warrior outpost' to vital and productive hub that would transform the medieval Islamic world, and indeed the entire Mediterranean."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Narrating Muslim Sicily
Narrating Muslim Sicily - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrating Muslim Sicily write by William Granara. This book was released on 2019-06-27. Narrating Muslim Sicily available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 902 the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily fell, and the island would remain under Muslim control until the arrival of the Normans in the eleventh century. Drawing on a lifetime of translating and linguistic experience, William Granara here focuses on the various ways in which medieval Arab historians, geographers, jurists and philologists imagined and articulated their ever-changing identities in this turbulent period. All of these authors sought to make sense of the island's dramatic twists, including conquest and struggles over political sovereignty, and the painful decline of social and cultural life. Writing about Siqilliya involved drawing from memory, conjecture and then-current theories of why nations and people rose and fell. In so doing, Granara considers and translates, often for the first time, a vast range of primary sources - from the master chronicles of Ibn al-Athir and Ibn Khadun to biographical dictionaries, geographical works, legal treatises and poetry - and modern scholarship not available in English. He charts the shift from Sicily as 'warrior outpost' to vital and productive hub that would transform the medieval Islamic world, and indeed the entire Mediterranean.
Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian
Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian write by William Granara. This book was released on 2021-07-01. Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘Abd al-Jabbar ibn Hamdis (1055–1133) survives as the best-known figure from four centuries of Arab-Islamic civilisation on the island of Sicily. There he grew up in a society enriched by a century of cultural development but whose unity was threatened by competing warlords. After the Normans invaded, he followed many other Muslims in emigrating, first to North Africa and then to Seville, where he began his career as a court poet. Although he achieved fame and success in his time, Ibn Hamdis was forced to bear witness to sectarian strife among the Muslims of both Sicily and Spain, and the gradual success of the Christian reconquest, including the decline of his beloved homeland. Through his verse, William Granara examines his life and times.
A History of Muslim Sicily
A History of Muslim Sicily - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Muslim Sicily write by Leonard C. Chiarelli. This book was released on 2011. A History of Muslim Sicily available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A study of the period of Muslim Arab rule on the island from A.D. 827 to the Norman conquest in A.D. 1070"--P. [4] of cover.
Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily
Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily write by Emily Sohmer Tai. This book was released on 2022-09-08. Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book synthesizes three fields of inquiry on the cutting edge of scholarship in medieval studies and world history: the history of medieval Sicily; the history of maritime violence, often named as piracy; and digital humanities. By merging these seemingly disparate strands in the scholarship of world history and medieval studies into a single volume, this book offers new insights into the history of medieval Sicily and the study of maritime violence. As several of the essays in this volume demonstrate, maritime violence fundamentally shaped experience in the medieval Mediterranean, as every ship that sailed, even those launched for commerce or travel, anticipated the possibility of encountering pirates, or dabbling in piracy themselves.
