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Sea of the Caliphs : The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World / Christophe Picard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Picard, Christophe, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sea-power--Islamic Empire.
- Sea-power.
- Abbasids--History, Naval.
- Abbasids.
- Mediterranean Region--History--476-1517.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Islamic Empire--History, Naval.
- Islamic Empire.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (396 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The End of the Moorish and Saracen Pirate?
- I. The Arab Mediterranean Between Representation and Appropriation
- 1. The Arab Discovery of the Mediterranean
- 2. Arab Writing on the Conquest of the Mediterranean
- 3. The Silences of the Sea: The Abbasid Jihad
- 4. The Geographers’ Mediterranean
- 5. Muslim Centers of the Western Mediterranean: Islam without the Abbasids
- 6. The Mediterranean of the Western Caliphs
- 7. The Western Mediterranean: Last Bastion of Islam’s Maritime Ambitions
- II. Mediterranean Strategies of the Caliphs
- 8. The Mediterranean of the Two Empires
- 9. Controlling the Mediterranean: The Abbasid Model
- 10. The Maritime Awakening of the Muslim West
- 11. The Maritime Imperialism of the Caliphs in the Tenth Century: The End of Jihad?
- 12. Islam’s Maritime Sovereignty in the Face of Latin Expansion
- Conclusion: The Medieval Mediterranean and Islamic Memory
- Notes
- Glossary
- Chronologies
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)
- ISBN:
- 9780674983182
- 0674983181
- 9780674982666
- 0674982665
- OCLC:
- 1018307389
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