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

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.

Table of 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