Siculo Arabic

Download or read book Siculo Arabic written by Dionisius A. Agius and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Within a span of three hundred years Sicily underwent two processes of ethnic, cultural and linguistic transformation. Under the Arab rule it witnessed a period of change from Hellenization and Christianization to Arabization and Islamization. This study looks at Arabization and Arabicization with Arabization means the process of conforming to a culture and an ethnic community, in this case Arab, while Arabicization a process of adopting Arabic as a language or dialect which was socially and economically advantageous at the time.