subject: History of Islamic Sicily [print this page] History of Islamic Sicily History of Islamic Sicily
The Islamic rule over Sicily began after the landing at Mazara del Vallo in 827 and ended with the fall of Noto in 1091.As early as the seventh century the island suffered many raids Muslim. The Arabs had settled on the African side - where there were small kingdoms defeated by the Berber leader Uqba b. Nafi around 685 after the famous "ride" that brought him to the shores of the Atlantic south of Morocco - the Mediterranean Sea, had already conquered part of Spain and the islands of Malta and Pantelleria. Sicily was considered strategic for the control of the Mediterranean at the expense of rivals Byzantines. The disintegration of the Byzantine Empire and its weakness were heavily felt in Sicily, fueling a certain discontent, in an area that has always, both politically and culturally, and he felt more attracted to nearby Rome and what was the 'Empire of the West rather than from Constantinople and the Empire of the East.
Between 803 and 820 the Byzantine efficiency in the centralquadrant of the Mediterranean began to decrease dramatically, in conjunction with the governmentof the Empress Irene and the story of Thomas the Slav help improve the state of weakness of the Empire. The Byzantine fleet turmarca Eufemio of Messina, whohad seized power in Sicily with the help of various nobles, enlisted the aid of the Maghreb rulers (of the Islamic faith, but ethnically Berbers) in 825 toprotect his dominion over 'island. The Byzantines reacted harshly under the guidance of Photinus and euphemisms, defeated Syracuse, he fled to IFRIQIYA(roughly the present Tunisia). There he found refuge with the emir of Aghlabid Kairouan, Ziyadat Allah I, which asked for help to achieve a landing in Sicily and drive out the hated Byzantines.
The Aghlabid were then shaken by a sharp contrast that pits the indigenous component, Islamized after the first Islamic conquests of the seventh century and led byal-Mansur Tunbdh the army Arab who had come in at the time of the institution ofIfriqiya 'Emirate, at the behest of the caliph Harun al-Rashid with the first Emir Ibrahimibn al-Aghlabite.
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