History of Islam in Italy

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History of Islam in Italy started in the 9th century: while some regions of Sicily and the Italian peninsula became part of power between the year 828 Muslim Ummah (the Muslim conquest of Sicily) and in the year 1300 (the destruction of the last Islamic stronghold in Lucera, Puglia).

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Islam is almost no longer in Italy since the time of the merger of state in the year 1861 until the 1970s, a time when the first wave of immigrants from North Africa began to arrive. Nation, generally derived from Berber and Arab peoples, most of whom come from Morocco. Some also come from Albania, and several years later, they were also followed by people of Egypt, Tunisia, Senegal, Somalia, Pakistan and others.

Currently, there are 60,000 Italian nationals who were Muslim. Those are the foreigners who become citizens of Italy and Italian native who converted to Islam.

Islam can not be formally introduced by countries in addition to Italy's second largest faith after Catholicism. Other faiths including Jews and smaller groups like the Church of Assemblies of God and Seventh Day Adventist Church, has been approved by the Italian government. Introduction official has given such an opportunity favorable beliefs of "religious tax", known nationally as the Eight per thousand.

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Arab Muslims in Italy The first Arab attack against the Sicilian-Byzantine in the year 652, 667, and 720 have failed; Syracuse can be conquered for the first time for a while in the year 708, but a planned invasion in the year 740 failed to be carried out because of the Maghreb of Berber revolt which lasted until the year civil war in 771 and lasted until 799 Ifriqiyah. Sardinia after successfully controlled in some stages of the occupation of Islam which took place in 711, 720, and 760, respectively. Italian island of Pantelleria can be conquered by the Arabs in the year 700.

Emirates in Apulia From Sicily, the Muslim nation began to move to the mainland and mastering Calabria. In the year 835 and then 837 years, Duke of Naples struggled against Duke Benevento requested by the Muslim nations for help. In the year 840, the city of Taranto and Bari fell into the hands of the Muslim nation, and in the year 841, also experienced a fall of Brindisi. Can be conquered Capua, Benevento, who was then under the Frankish rule, can be mastered in the years 840-847 and 851-52. Arab attack against the city of Rome in 843, 846 and 849 successfully thwarted. In the year 847, the city of Taranto, Bari and Brindisi to declare an independent emirate of Aghlabiyyah. For decades, the nation's Muslims ruled the Mediterranean and attacked the coastal towns of Italy. In the years 868-870, the city of Ragusa in Sicily is still within the power of the Arab nation.

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Only after the fall of Malta in 870, the Christian Western world succeeded in repairing the war against Muslim forces. Franko-Roman Emperor Louis II conquered the Brindisi and Bari crush the Arabs in 871 years, but then fell captive Aghlabids. Instead, the Byzantine menaklikkan Taranto 880 years. A small number of Arabs in the south of the fort survive hinggan 885 years, for example, Santa Severina Crotone in Calabria. 882 years, Muslim nations found in the mouth of Garigliano River between Rome, Naples and a new base in the far north, which united with Gaeta, and stormed like Sabinia in Lazio, Campania. One hundred years later, the Byzantines called the Sicilian Arabs as a supporter of the campaign against the German emperor Otto II. They beat Otto in Taranto in 982 in battle in Crotone and in the next 200 years largely succeeded in preventing a replacement since entering southern Italy.

Year 1002, Bari dominated again by the Arabs, but then ruled again by Byzantium. Melus (Melo), Emir of Bari from 1009 to 1019, against the Byzantine and dubbed by the Normans as a savior. Melus, comes from the Lombard-Arabi, described as Ismail in gold embroidery "Sternenmantel", which was awarded the German Emperor Henry II.

After Aghlabids defeated in Ifriqiya, Sicily fell in the 10th century to replace their Fatimid Caliphate, but claimed independence after fighting between Sunni Islam and Shiite Islam under Kalbids.