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Pirate Utopias Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes

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A look at the Islamic pirates and the Europeans that joined them, from the 16th–19th centuries, with particular reference to the independent Pirate Republic of Sale in 17th century Morocco. Swashbuckling never looked so good. Now in a revised, expanded, and updated edition no less, with a new essay by the author Peter Lamborn Wilson.

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From the 16th to the 19th centuries, Moslem 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? This new edition includes the new chapter on “Moorish Pirates in Old New York.”

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Weight 0.240000 kg