Format:
1 online resource (305 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781317829249
Series Statement:
Culture and Civilization in the Middle East Ser.
Content:
The social and linguistic history of medieval Sicily is both intriguing and complex. Before the Muslim invasion of 827, the islanders spoke dialects of either Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival of the Normans around 1060 Arabic was the dominant language, but by 1250 Sicily was an almost exclusively Christian island, with Romance dialects in evidence everywhere. Of particular importance to the development of Sicily was the formative period of Norman rule (1061 1194), when most of the key transitions from an Arabic-speaking Muslim island to a 'Latin'-speaking Christian one were made. This work sets out the evidence for those changes and provides an authoritative approach that re-defines the conventional thinking on the subject.
Content:
Cover -- Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Transliteration schemes -- Map of Sicily -- Introduction -- 1 Sicily before 1100 -- Popular perceptions and issues -- Early invasions and settlement -- Romanization and the 'Siculi trilingues' -- The situation at the end of the Byzantine period -- The Islamic period (827-1061) -- The Sicilian 'thema' and responses to raids -- Phases of the Islamic conquest of Sicily -- Demographic patterns: the Christian exodus? -- Conversion, assimilation and degrees of Christian-ness -- The Islamicization of Sicily -- Rometta -- The social and linguistic situation at the end of the Islamic period -- The 'Norman conquest' of Sicily? -- Events of the conquest -- The 'Greeks' and Muslims of Troina -- The Sicilian Muslim communities around 1090 -- 2 The Muslim community: language, religion and status -- Introduction to the issues -- Messina and Agrigento: Christians and Muslims -- The new rulers and the status quo -- Life under 'indirect rule': the fiscal, legal and religious status of Sicilian Muslims -- Ibn Ğubayr's 'Riḥla' as a historical source -- Muslim administrators and Arab-Islamic traditions -- The Muslims, the Sicilian kings and the Trinacria topos -- The 'palace Saracens' and religious ambiguity -- The trial and execution of Philip of Mahdiyya -- Arabic, Islam and taqiya -- The convert Ibn Zur'a -- 3 'Normans', 'Lombards', 'Greeks', 'Arabs', 'Berbers' and Jews -- Introduction -- Twelfth-century terms of reference -- The 'ethnicity' question -- North African contingents -- The Berber question -- A model for Berber settlement and dialects? -- Introduction to the Sicilian 'Greeks' and Jewish communities -- 4 At the margins of the Arabic-speaking communities -- Defining the margins of the Arabic-speaking communities.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780700716852
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780700716852
Language:
English
Keywords:
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1602143
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