William Granara

Books by William Granara

Ibn Hamdis the Sicilian

Eulogist for a Falling Homeland

‘Abd al-Jabbar ibn Hamdis (1055–1133) survives as the best-known figure from four centuries of Arab-Islamic civilisation on the island of Sicily. There he grew up in a society enriched by a century of cultural development but whose unity was threatened by competing warlords. After the Normans inv...
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