TY  - BOOK
AU  - Picard,Christophe
TI  - Sea of the caliphs: the Mediterranean in the medieval Islamic world 
SN  - 9780674982666
AV  - DS37 .S436 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Sea-power
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - Abbasids
KW  - History, Naval
KW  - Shipping
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - History
KW  - Navigation
KW  - Mediterranean Sea
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - "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; 2; 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; 2; b
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