Picard, Christophe, <br/><br/>
Sea of the caliphs :  the Mediterranean in the medieval Islamic world / 
Christophe Picard ; translated by Nicholas Elliott. 
 - vii, 395 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/> "This book was originally published in French as La mer des califes: Une histoire de la Mediterranee musulmane, VIIe-XIIe siecle, copyright (c) Editions du Seuil, 2015"--Title page verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-376) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674660465 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017025099 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sea-power--Islamic Empire.<br/>Abbasids--History, Naval.<br/>Shipping--History.--Mediterranean Region<br/>Navigation--History.--Mediterranean Sea<br/>Muslims--History.--Mediterranean Region
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Mediterranean Region--History--476-1517.<br/>Islamic Empire--History, Naval.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS37.8  / .P52813 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>909/.0982201