Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes
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From the 16th to the 19th centuries, Muslim corsairs from the Barbary Coast ravaged European shipping and enslaved thousands of unlucky captives. During this same period, thousands more Europeans converted to Islam and joined the pirate holy war. Were these men (and women) the scum of the seas, apostates, traitors - Renegadoes? Or did they abandon and betray Christendom as a praxis of social resistance? Peter Lamborn Wilson focuses on the corsairs' most impressive accomplishment, the independent Pirate Republic of Sale, in Morocco, in the 17th century. Corsairs, Sufis, pederasts, irresistible Moorish women, slaves, adventures, Irish rebels, heretical Jews, British spies, a Moorish pirate in old New York, and radical working-class heroes all populate a book which intends to entertain and to make a point about insurrectionary communities.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1570271585
ISBN13:9781570271588
Release Date:September 2003
Publisher:Autonomedia
Length:219 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 4.4" x 6.9"
Related Subjects
17th Century Americas Europe History Ireland Islam Modern (16th-21st Centuries) WorldCustomer Reviews
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