Les ports d’Ifrīqiya et les stratégies des califes fatimides dans le Maghreb central

Consolidating Aghlabid legacy with the Foundation of Mahdiya, the Fatimids relied on a port network which was already effective in the Central Mediterranean, and widely open toward the East, but slightly developed in their other western possessions in the Maghreb. The first objective of these ports...

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Main Author:	Dominique Valérian
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Published:	Université de Provence 2016
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ff223cebe40e4ee780a0ca3345f76b642021-12-02T10:06:21ZLes ports d’Ifrīqiya et les stratégies des califes fatimides dans le Maghreb central0997-13272105-227110.4000/remmm.9453https://doaj.org/article/ff223cebe40e4ee780a0ca3345f76b642016-06-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/remmm/9453https://doaj.org/toc/0997-1327https://doaj.org/toc/2105-2271Consolidating Aghlabid legacy with the Foundation of Mahdiya, the Fatimids relied on a port network which was already effective in the Central Mediterranean, and widely open toward the East, but slightly developed in their other western possessions in the Maghreb. The first objective of these ports was to control the siculo-ifrīqiyan space, in order to use it as a solid basis for their Eastern ambitions. Maghrebian military campaigns (against the Kharijits or in the West the Idrisids and small rulers, more or less linked to the Umayyads of Córdoba) remained for a long time purely terrestrial and followed the traditional routes used by Muslim armies since the conquest. The Umayyad attacks across the Straits of Gibraltar, their assumption of the Caliphate, but also the action of pirates threatening the navigation in the Central Mediterranean, decided or obliged the Fatimids to engage in a large struggle in the central and occidental Maghreb which, for the first time since the Muslim conquest, placed the ports and the littorals in the first place of strategic preoccupations. By expanding their action in the port cities of the whole Maghreb – and not only those of Ifrīqiya –, the Caliphs’ policy broke with that followed by the Muslim powers until then, and prepared the systematic development of the coastline by the rulers of the central Maghreb, Zirids and Hammadids, in the 11th century.Dominique ValérianUniversité de ProvencearticleHistory of AfricaDT1-3415Social sciences (General)H1-99ENFRRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, Vol 139, Pp 93-106 (2016)
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description	Consolidating Aghlabid legacy with the Foundation of Mahdiya, the Fatimids relied on a port network which was already effective in the Central Mediterranean, and widely open toward the East, but slightly developed in their other western possessions in the Maghreb. The first objective of these ports was to control the siculo-ifrīqiyan space, in order to use it as a solid basis for their Eastern ambitions. Maghrebian military campaigns (against the Kharijits or in the West the Idrisids and small rulers, more or less linked to the Umayyads of Córdoba) remained for a long time purely terrestrial and followed the traditional routes used by Muslim armies since the conquest. The Umayyad attacks across the Straits of Gibraltar, their assumption of the Caliphate, but also the action of pirates threatening the navigation in the Central Mediterranean, decided or obliged the Fatimids to engage in a large struggle in the central and occidental Maghreb which, for the first time since the Muslim conquest, placed the ports and the littorals in the first place of strategic preoccupations. By expanding their action in the port cities of the whole Maghreb – and not only those of Ifrīqiya –, the Caliphs’ policy broke with that followed by the Muslim powers until then, and prepared the systematic development of the coastline by the rulers of the central Maghreb, Zirids and Hammadids, in the 11th century.
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title	Les ports d’Ifrīqiya et les stratégies des califes fatimides dans le Maghreb central
title_short	Les ports d’Ifrīqiya et les stratégies des califes fatimides dans le Maghreb central
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Les ports d’Ifrīqiya et les stratégies des califes fatimides dans le Maghreb central

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