Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Introduction: The End of the Moorish and Saracen Pirate? 1
4. I. The Arab Mediterranean Between Representation and Appropriation
5. 1. The Arab Discovery of the Mediterranean 17
6. 2. Arab Writing on the Conquest of the Mediterranean 37
7. 3. The Silences of the Sea: The Abbasid Jihad 65
8. 4. The Geographers’ Mediterranean 85
9. 5. Muslim Centers of the Western Mediterranean: Islam without the Abbasids 98
10. 6. The Mediterranean of the Western Caliphs 112
11. 7. The Western Mediterranean: Last Bastion of Islam’s Maritime Ambitions 152
12. II. Mediterranean Strategies of the Caliphs
13. 8. The Mediterranean of the Two Empires 185
14. 9. Controlling the Mediterranean: The Abbasid Model 204
15. 10. The Maritime Awakening of the Muslim West 237
16. 11. The Maritime Imperialism of the Caliphs in the Tenth Century: The End of Jihad? 256
17. 12. Islam’s Maritime Sovereignty in the Face of Latin Expansion 274
18. Conclusion: The Medieval Mediterranean and Islamic Memory 287
19. Notes 295
20. Glossary 319
21. Chronologies 323
22. Selected Bibliography 325
23. Index 377