
Dynasties Intertwined: The Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily
Robert W. Lebling
Matt King.
Cornell UP, 2022.
“Bringing the histories of these two dynasties into dialogue forces a new narrative of the dynamics of the central Mediterranean during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, one that eschews easy trajectories of ascent and decline.”
—From Dynasties Intertwined
—From Dynasties Intertwined
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