The Muslims of Medieval Italy

by Alex Metcalfe

Book Overview

This significant new work focuses on the formation and fragmentation of an Arab-Muslim state and its society in Sicily and south Italy between 800 and 1300, which led to the formation of an enduring Muslim-Christian frontier during the age of the Crusades. It examines the long- and short-term impact of Muslim authority in regions that were to fall into the hands of European rulers, and explains how and why Muslim and Norman conquests imported radically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748620087
• ISBN13: 9780748620081
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"