Narrating Muslim Sicily

War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World

Prof. William Granara (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2021
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
9780755638543 (ISBN)

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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.

William Granara is Gordon Gray Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, where he is also the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He has published widely on medieval Arabic literature and translated several novels from Arabic to English.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	Early and Medieval Islamic World
Zusatzinfo	4 colour in 4pp plates
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 232 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9780755638543 / 9780755638543
Zustand	Neuware