Notes
1. ‘The Sea of Andalus, the Sea of Maghrib, the Sea of Alexandria, the Sea of Syria, the Sea of Constantinople, the Sea of the Franks, and the Sea of the Europeans/Byzantines … are one sea.' Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī (d. 1229), Mu‘jam al-buldān. Quoted by Matar, unpublished manuscript.
2. http://ufmsecretariat.org/who-we-are/ (accessed July 7, 2014).