Sea of the Caliphs: The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World by Nicholas Elliott, Christophe Picard

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

Nicholas Elliott, Christophe Picard

416 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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-Khattab (634-644), have led to a misunderstanding in the West about the importance of the Me...

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