Abstract:
As a triangular –shaped island, Sicily is located at the heart of the Mediterranean Sea. It has been of a significantly economic condition which benefited from such resources as gold, silver, and ore mines, as well as connecting with North Africa and Andalusia through the Mediterranean Sea. Sicily was strategically important for Romans because they used it as a base for invading north of Africa and Andalusia. For this reason, it attracted the attention of Muslims and was easily exposed to Muslim invasion. There are chapters in the history show that the rule of Bin-Aghlab dynasty (184-296 A.H.) in the west of Edni (modern Tunisia) had sovereignty over, access to economic resources and strict control on the entire Mediterranean Sea. The purpose of the present study was to analysis the economic condition of Sicily during the Aghlabids era. This research, relying on a library sources, seeks to explain and analyze the most influential factors in the development of the economic prosperity of Sicily. It seems that the Aghlabids with their own policies of coinage, establishment of maritime facilities and trade with Islamic countries of the Mediterranean area boosted the economic growth of Sicily. In this period, exporting the cultivation technique of a variety of crops as well as introducing the handicraft and Muslims' fine arts to Europe had been increasingly boomed.
Machine summary:
Among the important chapters of Islam in North Africa is the rule of the Aghlabid dynasty (184-296 AH) in Ifriqiya (modern-day Tunisia), their conquest of the island of Sicily, their access to the island's economic, commercial, and military resources, and their assumption of control over the Mediterranean Sea. The subject of the present research is the investigation of the economic conditions of Sicily during the Aghlabid period.
Regarding the background of this subject, it is necessary to mention that no independent research has been conducted so far in the field of investigating the economic conditions of Sicily during the Aghlabid period; however, a group of studies play a pioneering role for research on this topic, including works such as ((The Muslim History of Sicily)) by Michele Amari, ((The Political History of the Aghlabid State in Africa and Sicily)) by Sattar Oudi, ((History of Sicily)) by Aziz Ahmed, ((Islam in Sicily)) by Ramadan Saikal, ((The Muslims of medieval Italy)) by Alex Metcalfe, the article ((Agricultural Activity in the Island of Sicily through the Books of Geographers)) by Nawal et al.
, ((Consequences of Conquering the Second Bridge between Islam and Europe)) by Maryam Tabagh, ((The Method of Writing Local History in the Sample of Sicilian Local History)) by Mohammad Reza Shahidi Pak, and ((Sicily during the Period of Muslim Rule)) by Farhad Mohammadian.
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