| Description |
1 online resource (395 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mediterranean Region -- History -- 476-1517.
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Mediterranean Region. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
476-1517 |
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Islamic Empire -- History, Naval.
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Islamic Empire. |
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Naval history. |
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Sea-power -- Islamic Empire.
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Sea-power. |
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Abbasids -- History, Naval.
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Abbasids. |
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Shipping -- Mediterranean Region -- History.
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Shipping. |
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Navigation -- Mediterranean Sea -- History.
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Navigation. |
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Mediterranean Sea. |
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Muslims -- Mediterranean Region -- History.
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Muslims. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Naval history.
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| Added Title |
Mer des califes. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2017085865
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| ISBN |
9780674982666 (electronic book) |
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0674982665 (electronic book) |
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9780674660465 |
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0674660463 |
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9780674659667 |
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067465966X |
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