Sea of the Caliphs-Christophe Picard (epub) torrent

Sea of the Caliphs: The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World


By Christophe Picard

Published by Harvard University Press in 2018

English, 314 pages




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