location of which is not known and of which there are no more traces. Al-Ballanūbī, a well-known Arab-Sicilian poet, was born in Villa Noba, a hamlet near...

Arab-Sicilian literati, such as Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣiqillī, called "al-Ballanūbī" (or Billanūbī, that is "of Villanova"). The bibliography...