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Cover 1 Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 10 Abbreviations 11 Transliteration schemes 14 Map of Sicily 15 Introduction 16 1 Sicily before 1100 20 Popular perceptions and issues 20 Early invasions and settlement 22 Romanization and the ‘Siculi trilingues’ 24 The situation at the end of the Byzantine period 26 The Islamic period (827–1061) 27 The Sicilian ‘thema’ and responses to raids 29 Phases of the Islamic conquest of Sicily 30 Demographic patterns: the Christian exodus? 32 Conversion, assimilation and degrees of Christian-ness 34 The Islamicization of Sicily 37 Rometta 40 The social and linguistic situation at the end of the Islamic period 41 The ‘Norman conquest’ of Sicily? 43 Events of the conquest 44 The ‘Greeks’ and Muslims of Troina 46 The Sicilian Muslim communities around 1090 47 2 The Muslim community: language, religion and status 49 Introduction to the issues 49 Messina and Agrigento: Christians and Muslims 50 The new rulers and the status quo 51 Life under ‘indirect rule’: the fiscal, legal and religious status of Sicilian Muslims 53 Ibn Ğubayr’s ‘Riḥla’ as a historical source 58 Muslim admini

Author

Dr Alexander Metcalfe, Alex Metcalfe

Published

2019

Language

EN