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 sh...

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