TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ball,Warwick
TI  - Out of Arabia: Phoenicians, Arabs, and the discovery of Europe 
T2  - Asia in Europe and the making of the West
SN  - 9781907318009
AV  - CB251 .B356 2009
U1  - 940 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - East & West Publishing
KW  - Arabs
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - East and West
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Phoenicians
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Arab influences
KW  - Islamic influences
KW  - Middle Eastern influences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -