Guidelines for Teachers

The three monotheistic traditions
in Medieval Spain and Sicily

Table of Contents

  • 1
    War and peace in the western Mediterranean

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    The birth of Al-Andalus [map]

    The beginning of the Reconquista [map]

    The end of Al-Andalus [map]

    Lombards, Byzantines and Muslims [map]

    The Norman Conquest [map]

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    The convivencia in Al-Andalus

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    A Christian and a Muslim playing a game of chess [image]

    A Jew and a Muslim playing chess [image]

    A Christian and a Muslim playing a game of chess under a tent [image]

    Averroes conversing with the Greek philosopher Porphyry [image]

    A cantor reading the story of Passover [image]

    The mosque-cathedral of Cordoba [image]

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    Norman Sicily: a hybrid civilization?

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    King William II dedicating the Cathedral of Monreale to the Virgin Mary [image]

    Map from the Tabula Rogeriana by Muhammad al-Idrīsī [image]

    King Roger II in Arab dress [image]

    King Roger II in Byzantine dress [image]

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    Cultural exchanges

    Source 1: The life of Gerard of Cremona [text]

    Source 2: Portrait of Al-Rāzī from a Latin manuscript [image]

    Source 3: Preface by Peter the Venerable to the translation of the Quran [text]