Anxieties of Violence: Christians and Muslims in Conflict in Aghlabid North Africa and the Central Mediterranean
Jonathan P. Conant
AbstractThe Italo-Byzantine sources for Aghlabid Ifrīqiya present a vision of Muslim–Christian relations in the region that is often darkly violent, and contrasts with image this time place found not only Arabic accounts, but even most contemporary Latin Christian ones. Critically, however, Byzantine texts concerned violence amirate comprise small important collection hagiographic narratives about Sicilian southern Italian Christians carried off into slavery by North African raiders. Indeed, third/ninth century, central Mediterranean was particularly hard-hit raiding staged from lands under Muslim control, appears to have been market choice slaves captured expeditions sort. society doubtless characterised some degree interfaith tension period; far more violent fact hagiography p...
Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean