Les débuts de la piraterie andalouse en Méditerranée occidentale (798-813)
Pierre Guichard
This article proposes a re-examination of the texts Carolingian annals concerning first «Saracen» expeditions against islands and coastal regions western Christendom. These attacks are distinctly different, by their unofficial nature mainly economic aim, from great Omeyyad era, which were followed half century calm in Mediterranean. They do not correspond to vague or elusive phenomenon, but situated between two events that well known us through other sources (the revolt 'Abd Allah al-Balansi emir al-Hakam Second Cordoba coming Andalusians Alexandria) seem connected with beginning end. It seems, finally, Andalusian Moroccan Berbers (Maun) participated these raids.
Revue de l'Occident musulman et de la Méditerranée