By Claudia Karagoz, Giovanna Summerfield
The island of Sicily has for hundreds of years been a gathering aspect the place civilizations remodeled each other and gave existence to the cultural advancements on the starting place of eu modernity. The essays accrued the following discover Sicily as a spot the place those cultural interactions have produced clash but in addition new fabric and highbrow trade.
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First, the reason for the military successes of the Normans in taking over the island is attributed to internal fights among the Arabs. Ibn al-Ath hīr repeats, in more than one instance, that the situation in Sicily was deteriorating long before the arrival of the Normans: different people and competing groups linked to ethnic (Arab vs. 15 As a result, several centers of power under their own governor and independent from T h e N o r m a n s o f S i c i ly 33 the capital had emerged throughout Sicily, such as Castrogiovanni, Agrigento, Syracuse, and Catania.
The two dynasties were more than convenient allies to one another; they appear to have been on very amicable terms. T h e N o r m a n s o f S i c i ly 41 As British historian Jeremy Johns has shown, Roger II and the Caliph of Egypt, al-Ḥāfiz (r. 55 In particular, Johns has been able to provide evidence for close relations between Palermo and Cairo by pointing out pieces of correspondence between the two courts as well as highlighting the commercial ties between the two kingdoms. Additionally, the Norman king and the Egyptian caliph used to have a frequent exchange of gifts.