TY - BOOK AU - Picard,Christophe TI - Sea of the Caliphs: The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World SN - 9780674982666 AV - DS37.8 .P52813 2018eb U1 - 909/.0982201 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Abbasids KW - History, Naval KW - Muslims KW - Mediterranean Region KW - History KW - Navigation KW - Mediterranean Sea KW - Sea-power KW - Islamic Empire KW - Shipping KW - HISTORY / Middle East / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674982666 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674982666 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674982666.jpg ER -