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The topsy-turvy world of Norman Sicily
- Abstract:
- Few documents better illustrate the topsy-turvy world of Norman Sicily than an Arabic contract now in the Archivio di Stato in Palermo. In it, we see a family of Arab nobles reduced to the status of feudal villeins, a Benedictine abbot accepting an oath sworn upon the Qurʾān, and Muslims agreeing to pay to their Christian lord the ǧizya, a religious tax that Islamic law imposed exclusively upon Christians and Jews.
- Publication status:
- Published
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/0472cxd90
- Grant:
- 787342
- Publisher:
- Documenting Multiculturalism, Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
- Publication date:
- 2018-01-01
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English
- Pubs id:
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1179892
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pubs:1179892
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2026-01-29
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- Copyright holder:
- Jeremy Johns
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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