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

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Mer des califes. English
Main Author: Picard, Christophe (Author)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
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Physical Description:vii, 395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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300 |a vii, 395 pages :  |b illustrations, maps ;  |c 25 cm 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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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