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Sea of the Caliphs : The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World / Christophe Picard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (314 p.) : 2 halftones, 8 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674982666
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909/.0982201 23
LOC classification:
  • DS37.8 .P52813 2018eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The End of the Moorish and Saracen Pirate? -- I. The Arab Mediterranean Between Representation and Appropriation -- 1. The Arab Discovery of the Mediterranean -- 2. Arab Writing on the Conquest of the Mediterranean -- 3. The Silences of the Sea: The Abbasid Jihad -- 4. The Geographers’ Mediterranean -- 5. Muslim Centers of the Western Mediterranean: Islam without the Abbasids -- 6. The Mediterranean of the Western Caliphs -- 7. The Western Mediterranean: Last Bastion of Islam’s Maritime Ambitions -- II. Mediterranean Strategies of the Caliphs -- 8. The Mediterranean of the Two Empires -- 9. Controlling the Mediterranean: The Abbasid Model -- 10. The Maritime Awakening of the Muslim West -- 11. The Maritime Imperialism of the Caliphs in the Tenth Century: The End of Jihad? -- 12. Islam’s Maritime Sovereignty in the Face of Latin Expansion -- Conclusion: The Medieval Mediterranean and Islamic Memory -- Notes -- Glossary -- Chronologies -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Christophe Picard recounts the adventures of Muslim sailors who competed with Greek and Latin seamen for control of the 7th-century Mediterranean. By the time Christian powers took over trade routes in the 13th century, a Muslim identity that operated within, and in opposition to, Europe had been shaped by encounters across the sea of the caliphs.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The End of the Moorish and Saracen Pirate? -- I. The Arab Mediterranean Between Representation and Appropriation -- 1. The Arab Discovery of the Mediterranean -- 2. Arab Writing on the Conquest of the Mediterranean -- 3. The Silences of the Sea: The Abbasid Jihad -- 4. The Geographers’ Mediterranean -- 5. Muslim Centers of the Western Mediterranean: Islam without the Abbasids -- 6. The Mediterranean of the Western Caliphs -- 7. The Western Mediterranean: Last Bastion of Islam’s Maritime Ambitions -- II. Mediterranean Strategies of the Caliphs -- 8. The Mediterranean of the Two Empires -- 9. Controlling the Mediterranean: The Abbasid Model -- 10. The Maritime Awakening of the Muslim West -- 11. The Maritime Imperialism of the Caliphs in the Tenth Century: The End of Jihad? -- 12. Islam’s Maritime Sovereignty in the Face of Latin Expansion -- Conclusion: The Medieval Mediterranean and Islamic Memory -- Notes -- Glossary -- Chronologies -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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Christophe Picard recounts the adventures of Muslim sailors who competed with Greek and Latin seamen for control of the 7th-century Mediterranean. By the time Christian powers took over trade routes in the 13th century, a Muslim identity that operated within, and in opposition to, Europe had been shaped by encounters across the sea of the caliphs.

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In English.

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