Sea of the caliphs : the Mediterranean in the medieval Islamic world / Christophe Picard ; translated by Nicholas Elliott.
Picard, Christophe, author.
2018
DS37.8 .P52813 2018eb
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Title Sea of the caliphs : the Mediterranean in the medieval Islamic world / Christophe Picard ; translated by Nicholas Elliott.
Author Picard, Christophe, author.
Uniform Title Mer des califes. English
ISBN 9780674982666 (electronic book)
0674982665 (electronic book)
9780674660465
0674660463
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2018]
Copyright ©2018
Language English
Description 1 online resource (395 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number DS37.8 .P52813 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 909/.0982201
Note "This book was originally published in French as La mer des califes: Une histoire de la Mediterranee musulmane, VIIe-XIIe siecle, copyright (c) Editions du Seuil, 2015"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: The end of the Noorish and Saracen pirate?
Part I. The Arab Mediterranean between representation and appropriation: The Arab discovery of the Mediterranean
Arab writing on the conquest of the Mediterranean
The silences of the sea: the Abbasid jihad
The geographers' Mediterranean
Muslim centers of the western Mediterranean: Islam without the Abbasids
The Mediterranean of the Western caliphs
The western Mediterranean: last bastion of Islam's maritime ambitions
Part II. Mediterranean strategies of the caliphs: The Mediterranean of the two empires
Controlling the Mediterranean: the Abbasid model
The maritime awakening of the Muslim West
The maritime imperialism of the caliphs in the tenth century: the end of jihad?
Islam's maritime sovereignty in the face of Latin expansion
Conclusion: The medieval Mediterranean and Islamic memory.

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