ABSTRACT
Book Title – Greek Monasticism in Southern Italy: The Life of Neilos in Context (edited by Barbara Crostini and Ines Angeli Murzaku)
Chapter Number & Title – Chapter 10 : Calabria and the Muslims During Saint Neilos’s Lifetime (by Alessandro Vanoli)
Between the ninth and the tenth centuries, Muslims are a very important presence in Calabria, as we may perceive by the Lives of saints. The Arabic sources may help us to better understand the contest of cultural and political interaction that characterized Calabria and South Italy in that period.
