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Today, inshallah, let's do something interesting, easy, inshallah and also very fascinating.

Actually, I will be traveling to the province of Sicily in a few weeks for an academic conference.

And so this got me thinking about the history of Islam in Sicily.

So today we'll just summarize a bit of that and inshallah, I hope, is will be sparking a curiosity

in you to read more about this.

Where is Sicily?

Sicily is an island that is literally off the coast of Italy and is also close to North Africa.

So Algeria, Tunisia, between Tunisia and Italy, there is an island called Sicily and there

are other islands as well.

Muslims ruled Sicily for almost 300 years, almost 300 years.

This is one of those chapters that most people are not aware of.

We're all aware of Andalus, but Andalus is not the only European land that we lost.

In fact, there are others as well.

Most prominent is Sicily.

So very briefly, some tidbits so that inshallah, we wet our appetite and curiosity.

And as usual, the ishrat, I'm not preparing, I don't have my notes or something, it's

just literally general knowledge.

So if I make a mistake in a name or a date, inshallah, please overlook it.

The concept is what I'm trying to present to you.

We're all aware, we should be all aware that it was with Manibin, I found out the Allah

one who first instituted a Muslim navy.

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