Title Sea of the caliphs : the Mediterranean in the medieval Islamic world / Christophe Picard ; translated by Nicholas Elliott

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (395 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents 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 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 Notes "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 9, 2018) Subject Sea-power -- Islamic Empire Abbasids -- History, Naval Shipping -- Mediterranean Region -- History Navigation -- Mediterranean Sea -- History Muslims -- Mediterranean Region -- History HISTORY -- World. HISTORY -- Middle East -- General. Abbasids Muslims Navigation Sea-power Shipping SUBJECT Mediterranean Region -- History -- 476-1517. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98005648 Islamic Empire -- History, Naval Subject Islamic Empire Mediterranean Region Mediterranean Sea Genre/Form History Naval history Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674982666 0674982665

Other Titles Mer des califes. English

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