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Podcast: Muslim Footprints
Episode: Ep 5: Muslim Sicily’s hidden treasures with Professors Bill Granara and Nicola Carpentieri
Description: Muslims governed Sicily for about 200 years starting around 830 CE. A thousand years later, the influence of Muslim civilization remains. You can find it in the language, in local place names, and even in its cakes and sweets!
If you visit Sicily you also still see Muslim influence in its built environment – churches with domes and Arabic inscriptions, irrigation systems still in operation. And of course, Palermo itself, which recalls the urban design of North Africa’s historic cities.
The influence of Islam may extend beyond these tangible items - to culture as we understand it toda...