The Muslims of Medieval Italy

穆斯林在西西里和意大利大陆部分地区的定居持续了近500年。在9世纪至13世纪这段动荡不安的时期，在伊斯兰西班牙的“和解”运动和圣地十字军东征的同一时期，在竞争激烈的穆斯林-基督教边境的边缘创造了一个具有非凡物质和文化财富的地区。因此，伊斯兰西西里对意大利南部和地中海中部的发展产生了巨大的影响，穆斯林的影响一直持续到中世纪。尽管如此，伊斯兰西西里(827-1071年)和诺曼、斯瓦宾和安吉万的穆斯林(1071-1300年)仍然是中世纪历史上研究最少的主要主题领域之一。即使在11世纪被诺曼人击败后，穆斯林的存在和影响仍在最高层继续存在，因为随后的几代人创建了一个有意识地按照地中海南部和东部的先例塑造自己的王国。因此，诺曼-西西里王权包括从阿拉伯-伊斯兰、拜占庭希腊和拉丁-基督教模式中窃取的元素，以传递他们权威的印象。但是，虽然这可能被解释为宽容的“模范国家”或“没有十字军东征的土地”，但穆斯林社区受到越来越多的暴力，最终导致一系列大屠杀，并最终被驱逐到大陆上的殖民地，那里于1300年被解散，从而结束了中世纪意大利的穆斯林存在。我这本书的核心论点之一是，实现对这段历史的平衡理解的一个重要关键是对所有不同的研究分支进行综合和全面的了解，这些研究交织在一起，并与其适当的背景相对应。尽管这一主题领域具有重要意义和相关性，但目前还没有可靠的现代英语著作来解释和阐述与中世纪意大利穆斯林复杂的兴衰及其对中世纪欧洲演变的长期作用和影响有关的所有关键问题、新证据、最新进展和解释。因此，这本书的主要好处有两个。首先，它将提供一部准确、精辟和急需的意大利和西西里穆斯林历史，以利于学者和学生的研究社区。其次，它将对那些希望接触穆斯林-基督教关系研究中出现的更广泛的文化问题的人具有重大意义。因此，这本书将对广泛的现代读者产生巨大的吸引力。

Muslim settlement in Sicily and parts of the Italian mainland endured for almost 500 years. During this often troubled period between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, a region of outstanding material and cultural wealth was created along the very edge of a fiercely-contested Muslim-Christian frontier in the same period as the 'Reconquista' of Islamic Spain and the Crusades to the Holy Land.Islamic Sicily thus came to exert a huge influence on the development of south Italy and the central Mediterranean, and Muslim influence was to endure long into the medieval period. In spite of this, Islamic Sicily (827-1071) and the Muslims of Norman, Swabian and Angevin Sicily (1071-1300) have remained one of the most under-studied, major subject areas of medieval history. Even after their defeat at the hands of the Normans in the eleventh century, Muslim presence and influence continued at the highest levels as the following generations came to create a kingdom which consciously fashioned itself on southern and eastern Mediterranean precedents. Thus, the Norman Sicilian kingship comprised elements appropriated from Arab-Islamic, Byzantine Greek, as well as Latin-Christian models to transmit an impression of their authority. But, while this might be interpreted as a 'model state' of tolerance or a 'land without Crusades', the Muslim communities were subject to increasing levels of violence culminating in a series of massacres and their eventual deportation to a colony on the mainland which was disbanded in 1300 thus ending Muslim presence in medieval Italy.One of the central arguments of my book is that an important key to achieving a balanced understanding of this history lies in an integrated and comprehensive knowledge of all the different strands of research woven together and set against their appropriate backgrounds. In spite of the significance and relevance of this subject area, no reliable, modern work exists in English which sets out to explain and contextualise all the key issues, new evidence, recent advances and interpretations relating to the complex rise and fall of the Muslims of medieval Italy and their long-term roles and impact on the evolution of medieval Europe. The main benefits of this book are thus two-fold. First, it will provide an accurate, incisive and much-needed history of the Muslims in Italy and Sicily for the benefit of the research community of scholars and students. Second, it will be of major relevance to those wishing to engage with the broader, cultural questions that arise from the study of Muslim-Christian relations. As such, the book will have a significant appeal to a wide cross-section of modern readers.