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Title The Near West : Medieval North Africa, Latin Europe and the Mediterranean in the Second Axial Age / Allen James Fromherz.
Author Fromherz, Allen James, author.
Publisher Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.



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Description 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN 9781474410076 (ebook)
9780748642946 (hardback)
Note Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).
Contents Bèjaïa : introducing North Africa, Latin Europe and the Mediterranean -- Rome : North Africa and the papacy -- Tunis : axis of the Middle Sea -- Marrakech : the founding of a city -- The Almohads : empire of the western Mediterranean -- Between city and countryside : Ibn Khaldun and the fourteenth century -- Conclusions : a second axial age.
Summary This book tells stories of interaction, conflict and common exchange between Berbers, Arabs, Latins, Muslims, Christians and Jews in North Africa and Latin Europe. Using individual biographies this book argues that North Africa was, in fact, an integral part of western history.
Local Note CUP EBA August 2023.
Link Print version: 9780748642946
Subject Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500.

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