TY - BOOK ID - 22184293 TI - Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily : Arabic speakers and the end of Islam AU - Metcalfe, A. AU - Benn, Tansin. AU - Pfister, Gertrud AU - Jawad, H. A. PY - 2010 SN - 9780415616447 0415616441 1315822563 1317829247 1317829255 9781317829249 9781315822563 9781317829232 9781317829256 9780700716852 PB - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Muslims KW - Islam KW - Christianity KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Mohammedans KW - Moors (People) KW - Moslems KW - Muhammadans KW - Musalmans KW - Mussalmans KW - Mussulmans KW - Mussulmen KW - Religious adherents KW - Syncretism (Christianity) KW - Religions KW - Church history KW - Mohammedanism KW - Muhammadanism KW - Muslimism KW - Mussulmanism KW - History. KW - Relations KW - History KW - Sicily (Italy) KW - Religion. KW - Civilization KW - Arab influences. KW - Languages. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22184293 AB - 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 wo ER -