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Transkultureller und sozioreligiöser Wandel im muslimischen und frühen normannischen Sizilien

During Muslim rule in Sicily (827–1072), conquest, migration and settlement formed a largely Arabic-speaking and Muslim population. But alongside these processes, Muslim communities also absorbed large numbers of Greek-rite Christians into extended kin-groups who acculturated into a melting-pot and insular society shaped by a ‘patriarchal state’. When that state fragmented from the 1030s, political re-alignment foreshadowed a socioreligious reconfiguration as the Muslim communities dissolved into an increasingly Christianised state and society, with those along the old Muslim–Christian peripheries assuming far greater importance in times of political uncertainty and transition, most visibly during the Norman Conquest.