An Ibadi Islandscape: Ibadi Communities on Djerba in the Medieval Period

This chapter presents the medieval history of the island of Djerba not through a chronological survey but rather through a series of overlapping landscapes: those of its Ibadi inhabitants and their communal organization, its links to the virtually invisible lines of commercial activity that crisscrossed its shores, as well as the ways in which its geography has interacted with its Ibadi communities over time. These different layers together form the uniquely Ibadi ‘islandscape’ of Djerba in the medieval centuries.