Pirate utopias
Subtitle: Moorish corsairs & European renegadoes
By: Peter Lamborn Wilson
Contributors: Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Autonomedia
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781570270246
Subjects: Pirates; Muslim converts from Christianity
Description: "From the 16th to the 19th century, Moslem corsairs from the Barbary Coast ravaged European shipping and enslaved many thousands of unlucky captives. During this period, however, thousands of Europeans also converted to Islam and joined the pirate 'holy war.' Were these men (and women) the scum of the sea, apostates, traitors--'renegades'? Or did they abandon and betray Christendom as a praxis of social resistance? [The author] focuses on the corsairs' most impressive accomplishment, the independent Pirate Republic of Saľ, in Morocco, in the 17th century. Corsairs, sufis, pederasts, 'irresistable' Moorish women, slaves, adventurers, Irish rebels, heretical Jews, British spies, and radical working class heroes all populate a book which intends to entertain and to make a point about insurrectionary communities."--From publisher.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 205-208.

LC copy: Additional gift: Estate of Paul Avrich, 2006. Has inscription on half title to Paul Avrich signed by author, March 10, 1998.