Thomas E. Burman is Professor of History at University of Notre Dame. He is a scholar of Christian-Muslim-Jewish intellectual and cultural history in the medieval Mediterranean. His book Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom was awarded the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History.

Brian A. Catlos is Professor of Religious Studies at University of Colorado Boulder. He works on Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations in the premodern Mediterranean. His most recent book, Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain, is available in eight languages and as an audiobook.
Mark D. Meyerson is Professor in the Department of History and Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. He works on Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations in the premodern Mediterranean and on the history of violence. His book A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain was runner-up for the National Jewish Book Award, USA.

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Conventions
Introduction. The Mediterranean: Land, Sea, and People
PART 1. THE HELLENO-ISLAMIC MEDITERRANEAN (650-1050 ce):
THE MAKING OF THE HELLENO-ISLAMIC MEDITERRANEAN
1 The Legacy of Empire
2 Mediterranean Connections
3 Conversion and the Consolidation of Identities
4 Peoples of the Book Reading Their Books
PART 2. AN AGE OF CONFLICT AND COLLABORATION (1050-1350 ce):
THE MEDITERRANEAN FROM THE EDGES
5 Holy and Unholy War
6 A Connected Sea
7 Mediterranean Societies
8 Reading Each Others' Books
9 A Sea of Technology, Science, and Philosophy
10 Imperial Rivalry and Sectarian Strife
11 Minorities and Diasporas
12 Slavery and Captivity, 650-1650
13 Mystical Messiahs and Converts, Humanists and Armorers
14 Family, Gender, and Honor, ca. 650-1650
15 Mediterranean Economies and Societies in a Widening World
Epilogue: Luís de Torres in Cuba, Ishmael in the South Pacific: A World Grown
Larger, a Sea Grown Smaller?
Index