Sea of the Caliphs

Sea of the Caliphs
Author: Christophe Picard
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2018-01-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674660463


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Christophe Picard recounts the adventures of Muslim sailors who competed with Greek and Latin seamen for control of the 7th-century Mediterranean. By the time Christian powers took over trade routes in the 13th century, a Muslim identity that operated within, and in opposition to, Europe had been shaped by encounters across the sea of the caliphs.


Sea of the Caliphs
Language: en
Pages: 411
Authors: Christophe Picard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-21 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Christophe Picard recounts the adventures of Muslim sailors who competed with Greek and Latin seamen for control of the 7th-century Mediterranean. By the time C
Sea of the Caliphs
Language: en
Pages: 411
Authors: Christophe Picard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-21 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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“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-K
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Language: en
Pages: 379
Authors: Timothy Power
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book examines the historic process traditionally referred to as the fall of Rome and rise of Islam from the perspective of the Red Sea, a strategic waterwa
Lost Maps of the Caliphs
Language: en
Pages: 381
Authors: Yossef Rapoport
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-11 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the r
The Idea of the Muslim World
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Cemil Aydin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-24 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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“Superb... A tour de force.” —Ebrahim Moosa “Provocative... Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a Muslim world a