Sea of the Caliphs : : The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World / / Christophe Picard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Picard, Christophe,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.) :; 2 halftones, 8 maps
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674982666; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674982666
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Christophe Picard.

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.