Narrating Muslim Sicily
«Woven together from historical, geographical, literary, and legal sources, Narrating Muslim Sicily is an intricate and fascinating account of a medieval civilization lying on the frontier between Islam and Christendom. William Granara brilliantly teases out the different ways that Arabs and Muslims viewed the island – from eyewitnesses of the golden years of Sicily’s Islamic period, to later poets and scholars who reimagined its history. At the heart of Granara’s groundbreaking book is a subtle argument: that while all of these sources collectively constituted a “zone of contradiction”, they nevertheless consistently appealed to the concept of jihad as a tool to extract meaning from Muslim Sicily’s unique experiences.»
Robert Wisnovsky, James McGill Professor of Islamic Philosophy, McGill University, Canada
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. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- I.B. Tauris
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 240
- ISBN
- 9780755638543
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«Woven together from historical, geographical, literary, and legal sources, Narrating Muslim Sicily is an intricate and fascinating account of a medieval civilization lying on the frontier between Islam and Christendom. William Granara brilliantly teases out the different ways that Arabs and Muslims viewed the island – from eyewitnesses of the golden years of Sicily’s Islamic period, to later poets and scholars who reimagined its history. At the heart of Granara’s groundbreaking book is a subtle argument: that while all of these sources collectively constituted a “zone of contradiction”, they nevertheless consistently appealed to the concept of jihad as a tool to extract meaning from Muslim Sicily’s unique experiences.»
Robert Wisnovsky, James McGill Professor of Islamic Philosophy, McGill University, Canada
«an invaluable resource for specialists in medieval Sicily, and invites more general readers into this rich literary world»
Joshua C. Birk, Associate Professor of History, Smith College USA.