Ibn Hamdis The Sicilian

Author : William Granara
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786078476

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Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian by William Granara Pdf

‘Abd al-Jabbar ibn Hamdis (1055–1133) survives as the best-known figure from four centuries of Arab-Islamic civilisation on the island of Sicily. There he grew up in a society enriched by a century of cultural development but whose unity was threatened by competing warlords. After the Normans invaded, he followed many other Muslims in emigrating, first to North Africa and then to Seville, where he began his career as a court poet. Although he achieved fame and success in his time, Ibn Hamdis was forced to bear witness to sectarian strife among the Muslims of both Sicily and Spain, and the gradual success of the Christian reconquest, including the decline of his beloved homeland. Through his verse, William Granara examines his life and times.

Author : Karla Mallette
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812204797

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The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250 by Karla Mallette Pdf

When Muslim invaders conquered Sicily in the ninth century, they took control of a weakened Greek state in cultural decadence. When, two centuries later, the Normans seized control of the island, they found a Muslim state just entering its cultural prime. Rather than replace the practices and idioms of the vanquished people with their own, the Normans in Sicily adopted and adapted the Greco-Arabic culture that had developed on the island. Yet less than a hundred years later, the cultural and linguistic mix had been reduced, a Romance tradition had come to dominate, and Sicilian poets composed the first body of love lyrics in an Italianate vernacular. Karla Mallette has written the first literary history of the Kingdom of Sicily in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Where other scholars have separated out the island's literature along linguistic grounds, Mallette surveys the literary production in Arabic, Latin, Greek, and Romance dialects, in addition to the architectural remains, numismatic inscriptions, and diplomatic records, to argue for a multilingual, multicultural, and coherent literary tradition. Drawing on postcolonial theory to consider institutional and intellectual power, the exchange of knowledge across cultural boundaries, and the containment and celebration of the other that accompanies cultural transition, the book includes an extensive selection of poems and documents translated from the Arabic, Latin, Old French, and Italian. The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250 opens up new venues for understanding the complexity of a place and culture at the crossroads of East and West, Islam and Christianity, tradition and innovation.

Author : William Granara
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786726070

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Narrating Muslim Sicily by William Granara Pdf

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.

Author : Christopher Kleinhenz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1648 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351664455

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval Italy (2004) by Christopher Kleinhenz Pdf

First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century. It presents in two volumes articles on a wide range of topics including history, literature, art, music, urban development, commerce and economics, social and political institutions, religion and hagiography, philosophy and science. This illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource and will be of key interest not only to students and scholars of history but also to those studying a range of subjects, as well as the general reader.

Author : Jane Gilbert,Thomas O'Donnell,Brian J. Reilly
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781914049149

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Medieval French Interlocutions by Jane Gilbert,Thomas O'Donnell,Brian J. Reilly Pdf

Specialists in other languages offer perspectives on the widespread use of French in a range of contexts, from German courtly narratives to biblical exegesis in Hebrew. French came into contact with many other languages in the Middle Ages: not just English, Italian and Latin, but also Arabic, Dutch, German, Greek, Hebrew, Irish, Occitan, Sicilian, Spanish and Welsh. Its movement was impelled by trade, pilgrimage, crusade, migration, colonisation and conquest, and its contact zones included Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities, among others. Writers in these contact zones often expressed themselves and their worlds in French; but other languages and cultural settings could also challenge, reframe or even ignore French-users' prestige and self-understanding. The essays collected here offer cross-disciplinary perspectives on the use of French in the medieval world, moving away from canonical texts, well-known controversies and conventional framings. Whether considering theories of the vernacular in Outremer, Marco Polo and the global Middle Ages, or the literary patronage of aristocrats and urban patricians, their interlocutions throw new light on connected and contested literary cultures in Europe and beyond.

Author : Tariq Ali
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480448568

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A Sultan in Palermo by Tariq Ali Pdf

An ailing king attempts to unify the Christian and Muslim worlds of medieval Sicily in this “marvelously paced and boisterously told novel of intrigue” (The Guardian). Amid the chaos and misery of the Middle Ages, Sicily proved to be an island in more ways than one. Even after Christians reconquered the island, the citizens retained their Muslim culture. One ruler became a bridge between worlds, speaking Arabic fluently, maintaining a harem, and even taking on the dual titles of King Roger of Sicily and Sultan Rujari of Siqilliya. Aiding Rujari is the Muslim cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi. As the Sicilian leader descends into old age and the island is pulled toward European values, al-Idrisi is caught between his friendship with Rujari and the plots of resistance brewing among his fellow Muslims. Pride and friendship collide with greed and lust in Tariq Ali’s rich novel of medieval Sicily.

Author : Mary Taylor Simeti
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-19
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781908117915

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Sicilian Food by Mary Taylor Simeti Pdf

The definitive guide to Sicilian cooking filled with authentic, hard-to-find recipes from this sun-drenched island. Gleaned from the author’s friends, family, and acquaintances on the island of Sicily, Sicilian Food is a delicious journey through the food, traditions, and recipes of this corner of the world. Mary Taylor Simeti, an American who married a Sicilian, set out to discover the food of her husband firsthand. She haunted former convents and palaces where Palermo’s libraries have been maintained. She tested each ancient recipe herself and updated the methods, providing clear and easy-to-follow directions. The book reflects the unique culture of Sicily, both the external influences of a series of conquerors and the domestic changes brought about by peasant, clergy, and aristocrat alike. There are recipes using the vegetable abundance of the Sicilian landscape, recipes for ice cream or granita, and recipes with names like Virgins’ Breasts and Chancellor’s Buttocks. Rich with history, the book draws from Sicilian archives and museums and quotes from Homer, Plato, Apicius, Lampedusa, and Pirandello—offering not only a culinary adventure but also an experience that feels like traveling to Sicily.

Author : Dr Alexander Metcalfe,Alex Metcalfe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317829256

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Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily by Dr Alexander Metcalfe,Alex Metcalfe Pdf

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.

Author : Francesco Rocco Ruggeri
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387780075

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Sicilian Visitors: Volume 1 - History by Francesco Rocco Ruggeri Pdf

Author : Suzanne Conklin Akbari,Karla Mallette
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442663404

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A Sea of Languages by Suzanne Conklin Akbari,Karla Mallette Pdf

Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors – including Cervantes and Marco Polo – were influenced by Arabic poetry, music, and philosophy. A Sea of Languages brings together some of the most influential scholars working in Muslim-Christian-Jewish cultural communications today to discuss the convergence of the literary, social, and economic histories of the medieval Mediterranean. This volume takes as a starting point María Rosa Menocal's groundbreaking work The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, a major catalyst in the reconsideration of prevailing assumptions regarding the insularity of medieval European literature. Reframing ongoing debates within literary studies in dynamic new ways, A Sea of Languages will become a critical resource and reference point for a new generation of scholars and students on the intersection of Arabic and European literature.

Author : DK Eyewitness
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781465496607

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DK Eyewitness Sicily by DK Eyewitness Pdf

Visit and explore Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and stop by Valle dei Templi, hike Mount Etna, and eat authentic caponata. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sicily. + Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance. + Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights. + Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums. + Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area. + Area maps marked with sights. + Detailed city maps include street finder indexes for easy navigation. + Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights. + Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sicily truly shows you the country as no one else can. Recommended: For a pocket guidebook to Sicily, check out DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Sicily, which is packed with dozens of top 10 lists, ensuring you make the most of your time and experience the best of everything.

Author : DK Publishing
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780756684914

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sicily by DK Publishing Pdf

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sicily will lead you straight to the best attractions Sicily has to offer. Packed with information, detailed Sicily maps, beautiful cutaways and floor plans of all Sicily's major sites, this guide explores every facet of the sun baked island of Sicily; from the rich Sicilian cuisine with its varied and exotic flavors to the gorgeous Mediterranean beaches, this DK Eyewitness Travel Guide is packed with essential information, whatever your budget. This fully updated and expanded Sicily guide provides comprehensive guidance on the best things to do in Sicily; from exploring the imposing ancient temples and fortresses left by waves of occupiers, to the colorful markets of the chaotic Sicilian cities. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sicily provides all the insider tips every visitor to Sicily needs, with dozens of reviews for Sicilian hotels, recommendations for Sicilian restaurants, tips for shopping, and all the best places for entertainment in Sicily. Don't miss a thing on your vacation with the DK Eyewitness Travel guidebook to Sicily.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781465413581

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sicily by Anonim Pdf

The DK Eyewitness Sicily Travel Guide is your indispensible guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns. The new-look guide is also packed with photographs and illustrations leading you straight to the best attractions on offer. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel guide will help you to discover everything region-by-region; from local festivals and markets to day trips. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars and shops for all budgets, whilst detailed practical information will help you to get around, whether by train, bus or car. Plus, DK's excellent insider tips and essential local information will help you explore every corner of Sicily effortlessly. DK Eyewitness Sicily Travel Guide - showing you what others only tell you. Now available in PDF format.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781465442413

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Sicily by DK Pdf

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sicily is your indispensible guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns. The new-look guide is also packed with photographs and illustrations leading you straight to the best attractions on offer. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide will help you to discover everything region-by-region; from local festivals and markets to day trips. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets, while detailed practical information will help you to get around, whether by train, bus, or car. Plus, DK's excellent insider tips and essential local information will help you explore every corner of Sicily effortlessly. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sicily--showing you what others only tell you.

Author : DK Travel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781465466389

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Sicily by DK Travel Pdf

Visit and explore Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and stop by Valle dei Templi, hike Mount Etna, and eat authentic caponata. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sicily. + Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance. + Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights. + Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums. + Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area. + Area maps marked with sights. + Detailed city maps include street finder indexes for easy navigation. + Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights. + Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sicily truly shows you the country as no one else can. Recommended: For a pocket guidebook to Sicily, check out DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Sicily, which is packed with dozens of top 10 lists, ensuring you make the most of your time and experience the best of everything.