
Название: Sea of the Caliphs: The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World
Автор: Christophe Picard, Nicholas Elliott
Издательство: Belknap Press
Год: 2018
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 411
Размер: 30 MB
Язык: English
“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-Khattab (634–644), have led to a misunderstanding in the West about the importance of the Mediterranean to early Islam. This body of water, known in Late Antiquity as the Sea of the Romans, was critical to establishing the kingdom of the caliphs and for introducing the new religion to Europe and Africa. Over time, it also became a pathway to commercial and political dominion, indispensable to the prosperity and influence of the Islamic world. Sea of the Caliphs returns Muslim sailors to their place of prominence in the history of the Islamic caliphate.