How does a Moorish prince become a Roman caesar? Fictions and forgeries, emperors and others from the Spanish "Flores" romances to the lead books of Granada / Keith Budner. The indiculus luminosus and the creation of a ninth-century prophetic conflict between Christianity and Islam / Andrew Sorber -- Empire and caliphate in the life of John of Gorze / Natalie Dawn Levin -- The Writing of Munazarat in times of turmoil: disputations in Fatimid Ifriqiya / Asusho Qurboniev -- Messaging and memory: Ifriqiya and Sicily / Alex Metcalfe -- "And God dispersed their unity'': historiographical patterns in recounting the end of Muslim rule in Sicily and al-Andalus / Roberta Denaro -- A wondrous past, a dangerous present: the Egyptian temple of Akhmim and the Martorana church in Palermo, as seen through Ibn Jubayr's travelogue/ Giovanna Calasso -- How does a Moorish prince become a Roman caesar? Fictions and forgeries, emperors and others from the Spanish "Flores" romances to the lead books of Granada / Keith Budner.
Summary:
"This volume explores a millennium of multilingual literary exchanges among the peoples of Sicily, the Iberian Peninsula, and North Africa: the Maghrib, or westernmost strongholds of medieval Islam. Beginning in the seventh century, Muslim expansion into the western Mediterranean initiated a new phase in the layering of heterogeneous peoples and languages in this perennial contact zone: Arabs and Berbers, Christians and Jews, Sunni and Shii'a Muslims, Greeks and Latins all shaped shared and contested identities, hybrid genealogies of knowledge, and fragile but vital political alliances. Waves of migration and the movement of scholars and poets transmitted and expanded canonical and convergent literary forms while facilitating the rise of new vernaculars and the adoption of "foreign" cultural practices and themes. These essays excavate the complexities of the literary artefacts produced in these times of turmoil, offering new perspectives on the intellectual networks and traditions that proved instrumental in overcoming the often traumatic transitions among political and/or religious regimes"-- Back cover.
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