TY  - BOOK
AU  - Picard,Christophe
TI  - Sea of the caliphs: the Mediterranean in the medieval Islamic world 
SN  - 9780674660465
AV  - DS37.8 .P52813 2018
U1  - 909/.0982201 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Sea-power
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - Abbasids
KW  - History, Naval
KW  - Shipping
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - History
KW  - Navigation
KW  - Mediterranean Sea
KW  - Muslims
KW  - 476-1517
N1  - "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; Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-376) and index; 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
ER  -