Muslim Sicily

Nuha Alshaar is Associate Professor at the American University of Sharjah and Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Her publications include On God and the World: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 49-51(with Madelung, W., Baffioni, C., & Uy, Oxford University Press, 2019) and Ethics in Islam: Friendship in the Political Thought of al-Tawḥīdī and his Contemporaries (Routledge, 2015). She is also the volume editor of The Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Sources and Approaches across Disciplines in Near Eastern Studies: Proceedings of the 24th Congress of the L Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (with Verena Klemm, Peeters, 2013). She has also contributed several book chapters and articles to prestigious publications.

• 1. Sicily’s Islamic Heritage: A Pervasive Culture - Nuha AlshaarPart One: Sicily and North Africa: Sociocultural and Political links 2. Sociocultural links between Sicily and Ifrīqiya in the Middle Ages - Mohamed Hassan3. The Kalbids of Sicily: Stalwarts of Fāṭimid Ifrīqiya - Shainool JiwaPart Two: Arabo-Islamic Philosophical and Intellectual Traditions of Sicily4. From Averroes to Dante: A Mediterranean Encounter Between Philosophy and Religion - Massimo Campanini5. Two Examples of Arabic Texts in Sicily: Between Linguistics and Philosophy -Patrizia Spallino 6. Psychological and Epistemological Concepts in Ibn Sabʿīn’s al-Masāʾil al-Ṣiqilliyya (The Sicilian Questions) - Beate Ulrike La Sala Part 3: Sicily and its Textile and Artistic Traditions 7. Common Threads: Women and the Making of Fāṭimid and Norman Textiles - Delia Cortese8. Architectural and Numismatic Traces of Arabic Cultural Exchange between Sicily and Greater Syria - Ammar Abdulrahman and Alaa Aldin, al Chomari9. On the Artistic Culture of Medieval Sicily - William TronzoPart 4: Sicily, Literature, Language, and Identity10. Intellectual and Poetic Traditions of Sicily during the Fāṭimid and Kalbid Rules - Nuha Alshaar11. Arabic-Muslim Accounts of Medieval Sicily and the Qur’an: An Intertextual Reading - Nesma Mohamed Taher Mostafa Elsakaan12. Consequences of the Reconquista in Greater Sicily for the Core Vocabulary of Maltese - Geoffrey Hull13. Three Worlds in one Island (Muslims, Jews, and Christians) - Giovanna SummerfieldAppendix of Arabic PoetryNotes