“Conquistare Roma”. Un topos islamico dagli Umayyadi agli Ottomani
“Conquering Rome”. An Islamic topos from the Umayyads to the Ottomans
Abstract
Nell’Islam medievale l’idea di Roma era incarnata da Costantinopoli, la seconda Roma che della prima assorbiva caratteristiche e rappresentazioni in un continuo sovrapporsi e intrecciarsi di motivi propagandistici. Il contributo ripercorre i motivi e i momenti di maggior contrapposizione tra Islam e impero cristiano, ponendo in luce le fasi di più accesa conflittualità, contestualizzando le relazioni tra le due sponde del Mediterraneo, analizzando, mediante la comparazione tra le fonti cristiane e quelle arabe, l’incontro e lo scontro di due civiltà radicate in spazi contigui.
In medieval Islam the idea of Rome was embodied by Constantinople, the second Rome that of the first absorbed characteristics and representations in a continuous overlapping and intertwining of propaganda motives. The contribution retraces the moments of major contrast between Islam and the Christian empire, highlighting the phases of most heated conflict, contextualising the relations between the two shores of the Mediterranean, analysing, through the comparison between Christian and Arab sources, the encounters and the clash of two civilisations.

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