La chasse à la baleine dans les mers septentrionales selon les sources arabes médiévales

• Published in: Médiévales
• Main Author: Ducène, Jean-Charles
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Presses universitaires de Vincennes 2021
• Subjects: baleine; pêche; géographes arabes; Arabic geographers; whale; whaling; lang; hist; Baleine; Blanche; la Baleine; Traveller; White Sea
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/medievales/11274

Whaling in the Northern Seas According to Medieval Arabic SourcesThree Arabic texts from the ninth and tenth centuries describe whaling in the Atlantic and the White Sea. The author of the text on the Atlantic is the Judaeo-Arabic traveller Ibrāhīm ibn Yaʿqūb, who describes spear-fishing in detail;...