- Introduction: The End of the Moorish and Saracen Pirate?
- Part 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
- Part 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
Sea of the Caliphs
The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World
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Publication Date: 01/21/2018
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