A History of Muslim Sicily
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A History of Muslim Sicily is a study of the period of Muslim Arab rule on the island from A.D. 827 to the Norman conquest in A.D. 1070. It is first the detailed study in English covering the various aspects of this 243-year period. It incorporates new Arabic sources and…
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This is the first general history of Sicily’s Muslims in English and the lengthiest, full of information, with a special emphasis on the era from the Aghlabid conquest in 827 until the demise of the Kalbid emirs around 1070.
Leonard Chiarelli’s endnotes are more interesting than the main texts of most other books on this topic, striking for details such as phylogeography (genetics) and his discovery of an Ibadi community in Sicily.
The author is unique among Anglophone Arabists for being raised speaking Sicilian as well as English, something that facilitates his unique ability to explain which Sicilian words derive…
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