Sea of the caliphs: the Mediterranean in the medieval Islamic world

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.