The Landscape of Sicily in and around the 13th Century. The Idealization and Islamization of the Island in the Literary Narratives of Al-Qazwīnī and Abū Bakr al-Harawī
The Landscape of Sicily in and around the 13th Century. The Idealization and Islamization of the Island in the Literary Narratives of Al-Qazwīnī and Abū Bakr al-Harawī

Summary/Abstract: In and around the 13th century, two eastern authors describe the island of Sicily fromdifferent perspectives but with the common purpose of linking it to the Arab and Islamicworld it had belonged to. Both describe the place with varied images which combine thereal physical aspects with fantasy, and which show natural landscapes, both urban andrural, dominated by the presence of the great volcano. The study of this island usingits landscapes as a key allows us to investigate the ideological processes of the authorswho describe it. Al-Qazwīnī and Al-Harawī undertake a literary itinerary in which theimages of idealization and Islamization or sanctification of the island are crystallised.

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