Exploring Muslim Sicily with Nuha Alshaar and Shainool Jiwa

IIS scholars Dr Nuha Alshaar (Qur’anic Studies Unit) and Dr Shainool Jiwa (Constituency Studies Unit) were recently featured on Radio ReOrient, a podcast by Critical Muslim Studies, to discuss the recent publication Muslim Sicily: Encounters and Legacy. 

From Radio ReOrient: In this episode Saeed Khan and Hizer Mir take a trip to Muslim Sicily, via a new book edited by Nuha Alshaar. They are also joined for this conversation by Shainool Jiwa, one of the authors whose work is featured in this edited volume. They discuss the period from around 800 CE to the mid-13th century, a period characterised by a large Muslim presence which still exerts an important, though sometimes forgotten, influence on the present. This episode is one of our Forgotten Ummah episodes, where we discuss Muslimness in places not traditionally thought of as ‘Muslim’.