Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily: Arabic Speakers and the End of IslamPsychology Press, 2003 - 286 Seiten The social and linguistic history of medieval Sicily is both intriguing and complex. Before the Muslim invasion of 827, the islanders spoke dialects of either Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival of the Normans around 1060 Arabic was the dominant language, but by 1250 Sicily was an almost exclusively Christian island, with Romance dialects in evidence everywhere. Of particular importance to the development of Sicily was the formative period of Norman rule (1061 1194), when most of the key transitions from an Arabic-speaking Muslim island to a 'Latin'-speaking Christian one were made. This work sets out the evidence for those changes and provides an authoritative approach that re-defines the conventional thinking on the subject. |
Inhalt
Communication around the royal palaces and Arabic | 5 |
language religion and status | 30 |
Normans Lombards Greeks Arabs Berbers and Jews | 55 |
At the margins of the Arabicspeaking communities | 71 |
the Monreale register of boundaries | 114 |
the mechanics of the translation | 127 |
an introduction to the evidence | 141 |
a model for change? | 174 |
114 | 241 |
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Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily: Arabic-Speakers and the End of Islam Alexander Metcalfe Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2014 |
Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily: Arabic-Speakers and the End of Islam Alexander Metcalfe Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2014 |
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Abdallah Abū administrative Agrigento al-Duqqī al-ğabal al-Harīrī al-hiğār al-khandaq al-Maġāģī al-şulb al-wādī Alī Arabic names Arabic-speaking ašğār attested Bāb BAS Arabic version Battallaro Berber bilingual boundary Byzantine Calabria Calatrasi caput Caracausi casale Catania Cefalù Christian Collesano conversion Corleone culture Cusa dialects Dīwān documents evidence example Falcandus Fatimid filii flumen fons Ğabal Ġār George of Antioch ğizya Greek scribes Hadd Rahl Hağar al-Zanātī Hārik Hiğār iati Iato Ibn al-Atīr Ibn Gubayr Ibn Hawqal Islamic island Khandaq Kudyat language Latin linguistic loan words magna divisa Malaterra Malbīt mandra Manzil Marhalat Mārtū Monreale monticulus Muslim Muslim communities Norman period North Africa p[er palace Saracens Palermo petra porta Qal'at Qurulūn ra's Rahl al-Ġalīz Rahl Bū F.rīra Rahl Ibn B.r.ka religious Roger Roger II royal Šantaġnī Sicilian Arabic Sicilian Muslim Sicily social Sūm.nī terterum toponyms translation in Amari transliteration twelfth century Usbitāl Val Demone vallones villein registers villeins Wādī Yūsuf