subject: History of Islamic Sicily - II [print this page] History of Islamic Sicily - II History of Islamic Sicily - II
The invasion began on June 17 dell'827 and the crowd largely (but driving elements Arabs or Persians), was entrusted to the qadi of Kairouan, Asad b. al-Furat, the great Maliki jurist Asadiyya the well-known author, of Persian origin of Khorasan. The landing took place the next day near Cape Granitola near Mazara del Vallo and was occupied Lilibeum (modern Marsala, Arabic Marsa Al, the port of Al or Marsa Allah, namely "Port of God") and both centers were fortified and used as a bridgehead and base berthing for ships. The expedition that would in all probability (beyond the legendary Christian tale) to carry out a raid deep into the island, not s'illuse can overcome the formidable defenses of Syracuse, the Byzantine capital of the island, but the fundamental weakness of the Byzantine , recently out of a fierce conflict against the usurper Thomas the Slave, to envisage Asad made the real possibility that the initial strategic intent could be easily changed in a shipment of real achievement.
Passed in a clash dall'indeterminata amplitude an unidentified Balatas (Curopalate?), put to flight at Corleone, and therefore exceeded the 828 best an epidemic, probably of cholera, dysentery, which led to the death for the same Asad (replaced by Muhammad b. Abi l-Jawara to the wishes of the soldiers themselves), the Muslims got reinforcements in 830, partly dall'Ifrqiya (then committed to repel the attack of the Duke of Lucca Boniface II) and most of al-Andalus, Sicily and in came a group of mercenaries under the command of Berber Asbagh b. Wakil, Farghals said. This made it possible for Muslims - who had already taken Agrigentum (subsequently Girgenti, always remained an overwhelming majority Berber) - August-September storm dell'831 Palermo, Sicily's capital elected Islamic (Siqilliyya), and Messina, and Motyca Ragusa (the name pre-Islamic, however, is still debated) and Enna (Castrogiovanni later became) was taken only 859. Syracuse resisted, home of strategos on which they depended so much as the rulers of Malta drungariato (Ducati) in Calabria, Otranto and, theoretically at least, of Naples.It was necessary more than a decade to subdue the resistance of the inhabitants of the Val di Mazara only to steal and even more between the 841 and 859 of the Val di Noto and Val Demone. Syracuse, passed the block set them between 872 and 873 from Khafaji b. Sufyan b. Sawdan, fell May 21 878, more than half a century since the first landing at the end of a relentless siege that ended with the massacre of 5,000 inhabitants and the enslavement of the survivors,
rescued only many years later.
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