Sea of the caliphs : the Mediterranean in the medieval Islamic world /
Picard, Christophe,
Sea of the caliphs : the Mediterranean in the medieval Islamic world / Christophe Picard ; translated by Nicholas Elliott. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (395 pages) : illustrations, maps
"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.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780674982666
Sea-power--Islamic Empire.
Abbasids--History, Naval.
Shipping--History.--Mediterranean Region
Navigation--History.--Mediterranean Sea
Muslims--History.--Mediterranean Region
Electronic Books.
DS37 / .S436 2018
Sea of the caliphs : the Mediterranean in the medieval Islamic world / Christophe Picard ; translated by Nicholas Elliott. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (395 pages) : illustrations, maps
"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.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780674982666
Sea-power--Islamic Empire.
Abbasids--History, Naval.
Shipping--History.--Mediterranean Region
Navigation--History.--Mediterranean Sea
Muslims--History.--Mediterranean Region
Electronic Books.
DS37 / .S436 2018