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This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Īḥmad, Azīz. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The passage of the island into Christian hands has typically been presented as a positive-almost joyful-event, and the Normans have been portrayed as liberators in the narratives of medieval chroniclers such as William of Apulia, Geoffrey Malaterra, and Amatus of Montecassino. This Muslim perspective, though, is rarely taken into consideration in historical accounts of medieval Europe. At the end of the eleventh century, when the Normans took possession of Sicily, the Muslims considered the end of their rule over the island as a catastrophic loss. 1 The Muslims knew well the many qualities of Sicily: the island was a fertile land producing huge quantities of grain and was located in a pivotal geographical position in the Mediterranean, which provided strong commercial and strategic advantages.
Sicily had belonged to the dār al-Islām (the Islamic world) for over 200 years, during which the island developed strong political, commercial, and intellectual ties with its Muslim neighbors, especially North Africa. “ May Allah restore it to Islam.” This phrase is often encountered in medieval Arabic writings when referencing the island of Sicily after it had passed from Muslim into (Christian) Norman hands.
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