01912nam a2200253Ia 4500 CTU_174060 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 75.36 320.945809 J65 Johns, Jeremy Arabic administration in Norman Sicily : the royal dīwān Jeremy Johns Cambridge, U.K.,New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press 2002 In the late eleventh century, Sicily - originally part of the Islamic world - was captured by Norman, French, and Italian adventurers, led by Roger de Hauteville. For the next 150 years, Roger and his descendants ruled the island and its predominantly Arabic-speaking, Muslim population. Jeremy Johns' book represents the first comprehensive account of the Arabic administration of Norman Sicily. While it has generally been assumed that the Normans simply inherited their Arabic administration from the Muslim governors of the island, the author uses the unique Sicilian Arabic documents to demonstrate that the Norman kings restructured their administration on the model of the contemporary administration of Fatimid Egypt. Controversially, he also suggests that, in doing so, their intention was not administrative efficiency but the projection of their royal image. This is a compelling and accessible account of the Norman rulers and how they related to their counterparts in the Muslim Mediterranean. Sicily (Italy),Public administration,Normans,Người Nóoc-măng,Vùng Sicily,Hành chính công Politics and government,Chính quyền và chính trị To 1282,Đến năm 1282 Italy,Sicily,Sicily,Italy,Nước Ý,Vùng Sicily,Nước Ý,Vùng Sicily Năm Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ