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  • 27 - Sicily and al-Andalus under Muslim rule

  • from PART III - NON-CAROLINGIAN EUROPE
  • Edited by Timothy Reuter, University of Southampton
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Medieval History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    13 March 2000, pp 646-669

  • Summary

    By the beginning of the tenth century Muslim expansion had come to an end in most areas of the Mediterranean world. In the western Mediterranean, Sicily, the Balearic Islands and much of the Iberian peninsula remained firmly in Muslim hands. Local autonomy in the centre and north of al-Andalus had long been a feature of the political life of Muslim Spain. For the next twenty years he was to be undisputed ruler of al-Andalus, a period which in some ways saw the apogee of Muslim Spain in terms of territorial security and internal peace and prosperity. In the tenth and early eleventh centuries, Sicily was an integral part of the Islamic world and was becoming increasingly populous and prosperous as time went on. Along with the Islamisation of Sicily went the continuing jihād in southern Italy. Muslim Sicily remained very much a conquest state.