Out of Arabia
Subtitle: Phoenicians, Arabs, and the discovery of Europe
By: Warwick Ball
Series: Asia in Europe and the making of the West -- v. 1
Publisher: East & West Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781907318009
Subjects: East and West; Arabs; History; Phoenicians; Muslims; Civilization; Arab influences; Middle Eastern influences; Islamic influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : an unsound compass; title: The discovery of Europe : the first travellers out of Arabia; title: The near East's far West : the Phoenician new world and its legacy; title: Glittering kingdoms : Arab states before Islam; title: Rome's Arab half century : Arab empresses and emperors of Rome; title: Impact of the abstract : ancient Arabian religion and the Christian West; title: Muhammad, Charlemagne and Rome : the effect of the first Islamic empires on Europe; title: Caliphs in Europe : Caliphs, Emirs and Sayyids in Spain; title: Across the Alps : the Arabs in Sicily, Italy, France and Switzerland; title: The world's debate : tragedy of the crusades and the legacy of intolerance; title: The Arabian Lake : Arab seafaring and the pre-European world system; title: A universal world : Arab world travel and world views.