Titlebook: Norman Kings of Sicily and the Rise of the Anti-Islamic Critique; Baptized Sultans Joshua C. Birk Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) a

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,A “Semi-Pagan Tyrant?”,ide as a female regent and the increasing symbolic import of Muslims in Sicilian politics under her and her son Roger II’s rule. Birk shows that Muslim soldiers and administrators were used as symbols of Sicilian power, illustrating the scope of royal authority, while Muslim agrarian workers became

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The Case of Philip of Mahdiyya: A Medieval Murder Mystery,d to illustrate a growing hostility toward Islam within the Sicilian court. Birk demonstrates that the texts reveal far more about attitudes toward Muslims in early thirteenth-century Sicily than twelfth-century perspectives. He argues that thirteenth-century writers recounting the trial of Philip o

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Community as Collateral,ian population envisioned Sicilian Muslims. This chapter shows that by the mid-twelfth century, the fate of Sicilian Muslims was linked to the strength of Sicilian monarchs, who used Muslims as a resource and a symbol of royal power. Because of this, Birk argues, Latin Christians expressed their dis

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The End of Muslim Sicily,yal in Latin sources. Birk traces the ways in which a series of dynastic crises led to a reemergence of Christian mob violence against Muslims. He shows that Sicilian rulers, nonetheless, assumed that Muslims could serve as a symbol of their power if they could regain control over them. Birk then hi

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Epilogue,arges were revived and expounded upon in the thirteenth century in an effort to delegitimize Frederick II and his successors in the Sicilian monarchy. The chapter charts the shift in the representation of Sicily’s Muslim population, the creation of the anti-Islamic critique of the Sicilian rulers, a

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Joshua C. Birk of sultans, their wives, soldiers, bureaucrats, and commoners. Prior studies of Ottoman costume books focusing on their exotic representation of the East make little attempt to explain the substantial number of Christians embedded into the pages of the Muslim world around them. This article highlig

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Joshua C. Birk of sultans, their wives, soldiers, bureaucrats, and commoners. Prior studies of Ottoman costume books focusing on their exotic representation of the East make little attempt to explain the substantial number of Christians embedded into the pages of the Muslim world around them. This article highlig