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Sea of the caliphs : the Mediterranean in the medieval Islamic world / Christophe Picard ; translated by Nicholas Elliott.
LIBRA DS37.8 .P52813 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Picard, Christophe, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Mer des califes. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Muslims.
- History.
- Navigation.
- Shipping.
- Abbasids.
- Naval history.
- Sea-power.
- Mediterranean Region--History--476-1517.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Islamic Empire--History, Naval.
- Islamic Empire.
- Sea-power--Islamic Empire.
- Abbasids--History, Naval.
- Shipping--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Navigation--Mediterranean Sea--History.
- Muslims--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Mediterranean Sea.
- Genre:
- History.
- Naval history.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
- 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.
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674660465
- 0674660463
- OCLC:
- 993134195
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