TY - BOOK ID - 77880057 TI - The Muslims of Medieval Italy PY - 2022 SN - 0748688439 1322981361 0748629114 9780748629114 0748620079 9780748620074 9780748620074 9780748620081 9780748688432 9781322981369 0748620087 PB - Edinburgh DB - UniCat KW - Muslims KW - Mohammedans KW - Moors (People) KW - Moslems KW - Muhammadans KW - Musalmans KW - Mussalmans KW - Mussulmans KW - Mussulmen KW - Religious adherents KW - Islam KW - History. KW - Social conditions. KW - Muslims - Italy - History - To 1500 KW - Muslims - Italy - Sicily - History - To 1500 KW - Islam - Italy - Relations - Christianity - History - To 1500 KW - Islam - Italy - Sicily - Relations - Christianity - History - To 1500 KW - Italy - History - 476-1268 KW - Sicily (Italy) - History - 800-1016 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77880057 AB - 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 different dynamics to the central Mediterranean. On the island of Sicily, a majority Muslim population came to be ruled by Christian kings who ER -