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.