Out of Arabia : Phoenicians, Arabs, and the discovery of Europe
| 1. Verfasser: |
Ball, Warwick.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Northampton, MA :
Olive Branch Press,
2010.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st publ. |
| Umfang/Format: |
xv, 208 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 22 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Asia in Europe and the making of the West ;
v. 1 |
| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : an unsound compass
- The discovery of Europe : the first travellers out of Arabia
- The near East far West : the Phoenician new world and its legacy
- Glittering kingdoms : Arab states before Islam
- Rome's Arab half century : Arab emperors and emperors of Rome
- Impact of the abstract : ancient Arabian religion and the Christian West
- Muhammad, Charlemagne and Rome : the effect of the first Islamic empires on Europe
- Caliphs in Europe : Caliphs, Emirs and Sayyids of Spain
- Across the Alps : the Arabs in Sicily, Italy, France and Switzerland
- The world's debate : tragedy of the crusades and the legacy of intolerance
- The Arabian Lake : Arab seafaring and the pre-European world system
- A universal world : Arab world travel and world.
