ISBN:
9781641892674
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (119 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Year of publication:
2021
Series Statement:
Past Imperfect
Keywords:
Emigration and immigration History To 1500
;
Emigration and immigration Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
Emigration and immigration Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
HISTORY / Medieval
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Refugees from the Islamic Conquests -- Chapter 2. Hadrian and Theodore -- Chapter 3. St. Elias the Younger -- Chapter 4. Constantine the African -- Chapter 5. Jewish Refugees from the Norman Invasion -- Chapter 6. Merchants -- Chapter 7. Imam al-Mazari and Other Muslim Scholars -- Chapter 8. Unnamed Sicilian Girl -- Chapter 9. George of Antioch and Other Immigrants to Sicily -- Chapter 10. Moses Maimonides -- Chapter 11. Religious Converts -- Conclusion -- Further Reading
Abstract:
The contemporary influx of refugees from Africa and the Middle East into southern Europe is only the latest in a long tradition of migration in the central Mediterranean. Indeed, ships filled with migrants from northern Africa arrived at the shores of Sicily and southern Italy throughout the Middle Ages. But migration is only one part of this story: merchants, soldiers, diplomats, and intellectuals also crossed between Christendom and the Islamic world. This book argues that the political, social, religious, and economic history of the medieval central Mediterranean cannot be told as the history of two different spheres, Muslim and Christian. Instead, mutual influences, interconnections, and communications linked northern Africa and southern Europe, surpassing the differences between the two civilizations. It is time that the history of this region reflects such interdependence
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781641892674
