Arabs in Sicily
Arab Muslims conquered Sicily in 872 AD and stayed there more than 250 years lived Arab Muslim island is blessed with prosperity and prosperity. Palermo became a large and beautiful city reached a population of about 300 thousand people and has become a commercial center due to the outstanding location between the eastern and western Mediterranean. Was it a wide markets frequented by traders from all sides exchange the goods they brought from Africa, India and Somerth and the East Indies, the Levant and Egypt. The shops by the arms industry and knitting and many other crafts have been constructed in the city of mosques, palaces and luxurious held at the luxurious surroundings role for the rich and flourished in Sicily civilization prevailed Security uncle prosperity.
Agriculture and industry:
The Muslims a significant impact in the provision of agriculture in the island of Sicily and in the al-Andalus lose important irrigation work led to Khasab lot of barren land has Odechlo in Sicily new crops oranges, cotton, berries, sugar cane, palm and Odechlo to open the country's new industries, it has emerged from Damascus textiles called Damsag ratio to the city and was rushing it a great market to the design of Jeddah and Gamal.okma Muslims focused on the luxury industry Kalzahraat tools and Ali al-Sahaf and other ornaments made of silver grafted This is a Muslim who mastered his work.
Benefits :
Conquest of the leaders in Sicily:
Ben plagiarized Aleihsba more than 103 AH | 721 m ... ... Sardinian Sicily.
Harith bin enlightened 111 AH | 729 m .... Syracuse.
Thabit ibn Khaitham Alozdra 112 AH | 730 m .... Sicily.
.... Thanks for the history Khalifa bin Khayat which unique information on the rulers of Morocco activity in the central Mediterranean islands Khalala for the period between the year 102 AH and 122 AH and recorded more than 15 naval invasion centered on each of the islands of Sicily and Sardinia.
.... It was conquered Sicily from the year 212 AH-day increase Abdullah bin mostly third princes Aghlabids state was full Vhaa in the days of Ibrahim bin Ahmed II 216 AH AH ..289 who crossed into Calabria and conquered southern Italy until Kcenth as well ... the opening of the island of Malta, the year 221 AH, has been a subsidiary of the Muslims to be occupied by the Normans in 483 AH ..1090 AD.
Aghlabids and enable the deployment of a lot of aspects of civilization in the lead, to the south of Italy and the opening of the city of Messina in 842 AD ... and Barry Tarndt and threatened to Rome twice in the year 229 AH and the year 256 AH and arrived until the mouth of the Po River in northeast Italy.
Sources and references:
Morocco's history Araba..saad Zaghloul Abdel-Hamid.
Date of Islamic Sicily ... Aziz Ahmed.