https://off-guardian.org/2017/10/13/three-candidates-for-sicily-a-signal-for-italy/ because facts really should be sacred Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://off-guardian.org/2017/10/13/three-candidates-for-sicily-a-signal-for-italy/#comment-40235 Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:00:57 +0000 http://off-guardian.org/?p=41798#comment-40235 “Both Milan and Venice were thriving commercial cities, thriving entirely from trade with Saracens. In fact the whole Renaissance, the “revival of learning in Europe”, inexplicably “arose” in Italy, that long, narrow peninsula with Saracen civilization brilliant at its tip, and its every port opening to the Saracens’ Sea,” wrote American journalist and author Rose Wilder Lane, in “Islam and the Discovery of Freedom”.
Robert W. Lebling in his article, entitled The Saracens of St. Tropez, published in the Saudi Aramco World (September/October 2009), details the western view of the fascinating Muslim seamen’s adventures in that part of Europe and the lasting imprint of Islamic civilization in Italy many other parts of Europe.
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