Ebook: Sea of the Caliphs the Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic world

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: The End of the Moorish and Saracen Pirate? -- 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 -- 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.