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Warwick Ball.
Out of Arabia: Phoenicians, Arabs and the Discovery of Europe.
Published London: East and West Publishing, 2009.
Series: Asia in Europe and the Making of the West, vol. 1.
ISBN 9781907318009.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Cromwell Press Group.
Size: 137x215x21mm.
Page count: text xv,208pp; plates 48pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good to very good: this copy has some mild scuffs on the covers, a little wear at the edges and corners, but overall doesn’t look heavily used, the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £8.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price 14.95]
Weight without packaging: 379g.

How to order this book

No overall medieval emphasis. Contents: The first travellers out of Arabia; Phoenician new world & its legacy; Arab states before Islam; Arab empresses & emperors of Rome; Ancient Arabian religion & the Christian west; Muhammad, Charlemagne & Rome — effect of the Islamic empires on Europe; Caliphs, emirs & sayyids in Spain; Arabs in Sicily, Italy, France & Switzerland; Tragedy of the crusades & legacy of intolerance; Arab seafaring & the pre-European world-system; Arab world travel & world views.

Notes: at foot of page & end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 48 pages of colour plates
Maps & plans: 10
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 5pp
Index: yes

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