@book {1230227,
	title = {Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World},
	year = {2019},
	pages = {240},
	publisher = {I.B. Tauris},
	organization = {I.B. Tauris},
	abstract = {<p>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{\textquoteright}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 {\textquoteright}warrior outpost{\textquoteright} to vital and productive hub that would transform the medieval Islamic world, and indeed the entire Mediterranean.</p>},
	url = {https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/narrating-muslim-sicily-9781788313063/},
	author = {William Granara}
}
