Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily: Arabic-Speakers and the End of Islam

ISBN-13: 9780415616447 / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str.

Alexander Metcalfe

Opis

By the time the Normans arrived in Sicily around 1060 A.D. the dominant language was Arabic and yet by 1250 Sicily was almost exclusively a Christian island. Alex Metcalfe offers a fresh perspective on how this rapid change might have occurred.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Abbreviation  Transliteration Schemes  Map of Twelfth-Century Sicily  Introduction  1. Sicily before 1100  2. The Muslim Community: Language, Religion and Status  3. 'Normans', 'Lombards', 'Greeks', 'Arabs', 'Berbers' and Jews  4. At the Margins of the Arabic-Speaking Communities  5. Communication Around the Royal Palaces and Arabic as a Language of the Ruling Elite  6. Defining the Land: The Monreale Register of Boundaries from 1182  7. BDe Saracenico in Latinum Transferri: The Mechanics of the Translation Process  8. Arabic-Greek Bilingualism: An Introduction to the Evidence  9. From Arab-Muslim to Latin-Christian: A Model for Change?  Appendix A: Index of the Monreale Estates  Appendix B: Salvatore Cusa's I diplomi greci ed arabi  Appendix C: The Varying Treatment of Professional Names  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Alex Metcalfe holds degrees in Literae Humaniores from Exeter College, Oxford and Arabic from the University of Leeds. After extensive travel in Europe and the Middle East and employment as a foreign exchange trader, soldier and teacher, he completed a doctorate at Leeds that serves as the basis of this present work.