William Granara is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He was awarded a Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship for his monograph Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World.
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1 BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN The Kalbids of Sicily Muslim Sicily Unraveling Born in Syracuse, Becoming a Poet Education in an Early Jihadi Frontier The Rise of an Indigenous Muslim-Sicilian Culture Poetry in Muslim Sicily, From Philology to Art and Politics Crafting a Poetics of ‘Homeland’ 2 DILEMMA: TO REMAIN OR DEPART Sojourn in Sfax: Maintaining the Ifriqiya-Sicily Connection Asad ibn al-Furat: Muslim Sicily’s Founding Father Ibn Hawqal’s Sicilian Chapter In the Shadow of the Norman Conquest 3 THE FIRST DESERT CROSSING Ifriqiya: A Divided and Turbulent Motherland The Zirid Dynasty of Ifriqiya The ‘Arabs’ of Eleventh-Century Ifriqiya On the Desert Highway: Traveling with Arab Companions 4 LA DOLCE VITA IN SEVILLE The ‘Abbadid Kingdom of Seville Muslim Spain and Muslim Sicily: A Comparative View Elegy to a Father Serving the Patron: The Political Panegyric Court Poet as Court Functionary The Looming Threat of the Christian Reconquest Poetic Sparring: Poet as Client, Poet as Competitor 5 FROM THE DARK CLOUDS OF AL-ZALLAQA TO A SECOND EXILE Confrontation at Badajoz: Enter the Almoravids The Battle of al-Zallaqa The Fall of the ‘Abbadids of Seville 6 1091: ANNUS HORRIBILIS AND THE SECOND DESERT CROSSING Intermission at Qal‘at Bani Hammad Return to Mahdia Connecting to the Zirids: Praise and Blame for Tamim Vigilant Eye on the Norman Conquest Ode to a Falling Homeland Back to the Family in Sfax: Mourning the Loss of an Aunt and a Wife 7 THE POETICS OF JIHAD: AT THE ZIRID COURT IN MAHDIA At the Court of Yahya ibn Tamim Revolt and Murder at the Zirid Palace Breaking Ranks in Gabes From Seville to Nicotera and Mahdia: The Almoravids Move East Victory at al-Dimas The Almohads on the Horizon 8 TIME OF REFLECTION: ASCETIC VERSES AND ARABS AT THE NORMAN COURT Retreat into Devotional Verse Arabs and Muslim Culture at the Norman Court in Palermo 9 TWILIGHT: BLINDNESS, LOSS, AND DEFEAT Losing Sight Sicily Forever on the Mind Elegy to a Nephew and Family History Mourning a Daughter, Mourning a Homeland Death and Burial Ibn Hamdis’s Legacy in History and Literature
1 BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN The Kalbids of Sicily Muslim Sicily Unraveling Born in Syracuse, Becoming a Poet Education in an Early Jihadi Frontier The Rise of an Indigenous Muslim-Sicilian Culture Poetry in Muslim Sicily, From Philology to Art and Politics Crafting a Poetics of ‘Homeland’ 2 DILEMMA: TO REMAIN OR DEPART Sojourn in Sfax: Maintaining the Ifriqiya-Sicily Connection Asad ibn al-Furat: Muslim Sicily’s Founding Father Ibn Hawqal’s Sicilian Chapter In the Shadow of the Norman Conquest 3 THE FIRST DESERT CROSSING Ifriqiya: A Divided and Turbulent Motherland The Zirid Dynasty of Ifriqiya The ‘Arabs’ of Eleventh-Century Ifriqiya On the Desert Highway: Traveling with Arab Companions 4 LA DOLCE VITA IN SEVILLE The ‘Abbadid Kingdom of Seville Muslim Spain and Muslim Sicily: A Comparative View Elegy to a Father Serving the Patron: The Political Panegyric Court Poet as Court Functionary The Looming Threat of the Christian Reconquest Poetic Sparring: Poet as Client, Poet as Competitor 5 FROM THE DARK CLOUDS OF AL-ZALLAQA TO A SECOND EXILE Confrontation at Badajoz: Enter the Almoravids The Battle of al-Zallaqa The Fall of the ‘Abbadids of Seville 6 1091: ANNUS HORRIBILIS AND THE SECOND DESERT CROSSING Intermission at Qal‘at Bani Hammad Return to Mahdia Connecting to the Zirids: Praise and Blame for Tamim Vigilant Eye on the Norman Conquest Ode to a Falling Homeland Back to the Family in Sfax: Mourning the Loss of an Aunt and a Wife 7 THE POETICS OF JIHAD: AT THE ZIRID COURT IN MAHDIA At the Court of Yahya ibn Tamim Revolt and Murder at the Zirid Palace Breaking Ranks in Gabes From Seville to Nicotera and Mahdia: The Almoravids Move East Victory at al-Dimas The Almohads on the Horizon 8 TIME OF REFLECTION: ASCETIC VERSES AND ARABS AT THE NORMAN COURT Retreat into Devotional Verse Arabs and Muslim Culture at the Norman Court in Palermo 9 TWILIGHT: BLINDNESS, LOSS, AND DEFEAT Losing Sight Sicily Forever on the Mind Elegy to a Nephew and Family History Mourning a Daughter, Mourning a Homeland Death and Burial Ibn Hamdis’s Legacy in History and Literature
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