Sea of the caliphs : the Mediterranean in the medieval Islamic world /
"How could I allow my soldiers to sail on this disloyal and cruel sea?” These words, attributed to the most powerful caliph of medieval Islam, Umar Ibn al-Khattab (634-644), have led to a misunderstanding in the West about the importance of the Mediterranean to early Islam. This body of water,...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.