1. Sicily's Islamic Heritage: A Pervasive Culture - Nuha Alshaar Part One: Sicily and North Africa: Sociocultural and Political links 2. Sociocultural links between Sicily and Ifriqiya in the Middle Ages - Mohamed Hassan 3. The Kalbids of Sicily: Stalwarts of Faimid Ifriqiya - Shainool Jiwa Part Two: Arabo-Islamic Philosophical and Intellectual Traditions of Sicily 4. From Averroes to Dante: A Mediterranean Encounter Between Philosophy and Religion - Massimo Campanini 5. Two Examples of Arabic Texts in Sicily: Between Linguistics and Philosophy - Patrizia Spallino 6. Psychological and Epistemological Concepts in Ibn Sabin's al-Masail al-iqilliyya (The Sicilian Questions) - Beate Ulrike La Sala Part 3: Sicily and its Textile and Artistic Traditions 7. Common Threads: Women and the Making of Faimid and Norman Textiles - Delia Cortese 8.

Architectural and Numismatic Traces of Arabic Cultural Exchange between Sicily and Greater Syria - Ammar Abdulrahman and Alaa Aldin, al Chomari 9. On the Artistic Culture of Medieval Sicily - William Tronzo Part 4: Sicily, Literature, Language, and Identity 10. Intellectual and Poetic Traditions of Sicily during the Faimid and Kalbid Rules - Nuha Alshaar 11. Arabic-Muslim Accounts of Medieval Sicily and the Qur'an: An Intertextual Reading - Nesma Mohamed Taher Mostafa Elsakaan 12. Consequences of the Reconquista in Greater Sicily for the Core Vocabulary of Maltese - Geoffrey Hull 13. Three Worlds in one Island (Muslims, Jews, and Christians) - Giovanna Summerfield Appendix of Arabic PoetryNotes.