1 Sicily’s Islamic Heritage: A Pervasive Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Preface xiv
6. 1 Sicily’s Islamic Heritage: A Pervasive Culture 1
7. Part 1 Sicily and North Africa: Sociocultural and Political Links
8. 2 Sociocultural Links between Sicily and Ifrīqiya in the Middle Ages 41
9. 3 The Kalbids of Sicily: Stalwarts of Fāṭimid Ifrīqiya 73
10. Part 2 Arabo-Islamic Philosophical and Intellectual Traditions of Sicily
11. 4 From Averroes to Dante: A Mediterranean Encounter between Philosophy and Religion 99
12. 5 Two Examples of Arabic Texts in Sicily, between Linguistics and Philosophy 117
13. 6 Psychological and Epistemological Concepts in Ibn Sabʿīn’s al-Masāʾil al-Ṣiqilliyya (The Sicilian Questions) 136
14. Part 3 Sicily and its Textile and Artistic Traditions
15. 7 Common Threads: Women and the Making of Fāṭimid and Norman Textiles 161
16. 8 Architectural and Numismatic Traces of Arabic Cultural Exchange between Sicily and Greater Syria 179
17. 9 On the Artistic Culture of Medieval Sicily 206
18. Part 4 Sicily, Literature, Language and Identity
19. 10 The Poetic Traditions of Sicily under Fāṭimid and Kalbid Rule 225
20. 11 Arab-Muslim Accounts of Medieval Sicily and the Qurʾān: An Intertextual Reading 255
21. 12 Consequences of the Reconquista in Greater Sicily for the Core Vocabulary of Maltese 286
22. 13 Trinacria: Three Worlds in One Island (Christians, Jews and Muslims) 313
23. Appendix of Arabic Poetry Cited in Chapter Ten 332
24. Index 337