caa a22 4500 388064293 CHVBK 20180307125129.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0041977X00016694 doi S0041977X00016694 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0041977X00016694 The mystery at Chùrchuro: conspiracy or incompetence in twelfth-century Sicily? [Elektronische Daten] Immediately after his successful conquest of Muslim Sicily (1060-92), Roger de Hauteville set about dividing the spoils amongst the small band of Norman, French and Italian knights who were his closest followers. This distribution of the land of Sicily and its inhabitants was in part based upon the fiscal documents of the Muslim administration, which were salvaged and adapted to post-conquest circumstances by a small cadre of Greek bureaucrats imported from Calabria. The documents were of two types: lists of tax-payers, known in Arabic as jarā 'id (sg. jarīda; Greek plateia; Latin plated); and descriptions of estate boundaries, known as hudud (sg. hadd; Greek periorismos; Latin divisa). These were the foundations of the Arabic administration of Norman Sicily. Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1999 Johns Jeremy The Oriental Institute, Oxford Metcalfe Alex University of Leeds Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Cambridge University Press 62/2(1999-06), 226-259 0041-977X 62:2<226 1999 62 BSO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00016694 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00016694 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Johns Jeremy The Oriental Institute, Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Metcalfe Alex University of Leeds NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Cambridge University Press 62/2(1999-06), 226-259 0041-977X 62:2<226 1999 62 BSO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge