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Muslim sea-power in the eastern Mediterranean : from the seventh to the tenth century A.D. (studies in naval organisation).
Aly Mohamed Fahmy
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שפה נוכחית
Sea of the Caliphs
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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.
| Title |
Sea of the Caliphs : The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World / Christophe Picard. |
|---|---|
| Publisher |
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press |
| Creation Date |
[2018] |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. In English. |
| Content |
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 |
| Extent |
1 online resource (396 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Language |
English |
| Copyright Date |
©2018 |
| National Library system number |
997010703356205171 |
MARC RECORDS
Tags
- Sea-power Islamic Empire.
- Abbasids History, Naval.
- Dominion of the sea
- Military power
- Naval policy
- Navy
- Sea, Dominion of the
- Seapower
- Mediterranean Region History 476-1517.
- Islamic Empire History, Naval.
- Arab countries History 622-1516
- Arab Empire
- Empire, Islamic
- Middle East History 622-1517
- Muslim Empire
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