Emirate of Sicily

Emirate of Sicily

English

Proper noun

Emirate of Sicily

1. (historical) A mediaeval Islamic state that ruled Sicily from 831 until falling to the Normans in 1091; specifically, the state ruled by the Kalbids, from 948 to 1091.
   • 1992 [Rosemont Publishing & Printing], Peter Sammartino, William Roberts, Sicily: An Informal History, 2001, Cromwall Books, Paperback, page 44,

     After becoming the capital of the Arab Emirate of Sicily, Palermo became a center of a cultural assimilation that was developed during the Arab conquest of the Mediterranean region and the Middle East.

   • 2018, Antonio Capurso, Gaetano Crepaldi, Cristiano Capurso, Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet in the Elderly Patient, Springer, page 235,

     In the ninth century, during the Emirate of Sicily, the bitter orange was introduced in Sicily.

   • 2019, Lorenzo Caponetti, Chapter 21: The Invisible Landscape, Christian Isendahl, Daryl Stump (editors), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology, Oxford University Press, page 415,

     In Italy, similar devices are found both in Puglia and in Sicily, where the town of Palermo still takes a proportion of its water out of a network of qanats (see Todaro, 2014); the Arabic term being employed in Palermo since the town's history as the capital of the Emirate of Sicily has led many to assume that the structures are of Arabic origin.

Usage notes

Condensed timeline of Islam in Sicily:

• 827: Aghlabid forces enter Sicily, exploiting internal Byzantine conflict.
• 831–909: Sicily is ruled as a province of the Aghlabid Emirate of Ifriqiya, nominally on behalf of the Abbasid Caliphate.
• 909–948: Sicily is ruled as a province of the Fatimid Caliphate.
• From 948: Sicily is ruled as an emirate by the Kalbids, at first on behalf of the Fatimids, but gradually achieving autonomy.
• From 1044: Emirate of Sicily is fragmented into qadits (small fiefdoms), which battle each other for power.
• 1061: Normans arrive via the Italian peninsula.
• 1091: Norman conquest of Sicily complete.

Translations

historical emirate which ruled Sicily

Arabic: إِمَارَة صِقِلِّيَة‎‎ (ʾimāra(t) ṣiqilliya) French: émirat de Sicile m German: Emirat von Sizilien n Italian: Emirato di Sicilia m Sicilian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Emirate of Bari
• Kingdom of Sicily

Further reading

• Arab–Byzantine wars on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Abbasid Caliphate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Muslim conquest of Sicily on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• History of Islam in southern Italy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• History of Sicily § Muslim period on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Norman conquest of southern Italy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Kingdom of Sicily on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Norman-Arab-Byzantine culture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia