{"pk":41011,"title":"I nostri Saracini\n: Writing the History of the Arabs of Sicily","subtitle":null,"abstract":"During the nineteenth century, Sicilian Orientalists wrote the story of Sicily’s domination by the Arabs and the Arabic-language culture of the Normans – centuries of eventful history that had been lost to the West because European historians could not read Arabic documents. In their histories, Sicilians identified an alternate origin for European modernity: the vibrant Arab culture of the medieval Mediterranean transmitted to the continent through borderland states like the Kingdom of Sicily. This essay examines the lives and scholarship of three nineteenth-century Sicilian Orientalists – Pietro Lanza, Vincenzo Mortillaro, and Michele Amari – who worked to articulate a Mediterranean origin for European modernity.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2hm1k07b","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Karla","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mallette","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Michigan","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2008-10-18T09:00:00+02:00","date_accepted":"2008-10-18T09:00:00+02:00","date_published":"2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41011/galley/30686/download/"}]}