Picard, Christophe, <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674982666 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sea-power--Islamic Empire.<br/>Abbasids--History, Naval.<br/>Shipping--History.--Mediterranean Region<br/>Navigation--History.--Mediterranean Sea<br/>Muslims--History.--Mediterranean Region
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS37  / .S436 2018