Palermo experienced, Palermo imagined. Arabic and Islamic culture between the 9th and the 12th Century

Cultural production in Palermo, or related to that city, is considered both in the context of the real, complex dialectical relationship between residence and place of passage, and in the context of literary construction and hence as a space, even a symbolic one, sedimented within those representations of the imaginary, sometimes with ideological connotations, which enabled Arabic Language authors to represent, recast and reinvent Sicily and its capital city.