God's crucible : Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215 / David Levering Lewis.
By: Lewis, David L.
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BookPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2008Edition: 1st ed.Description: xxv, 473 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780393064728 (hbk.); 0393064727 (hbk.).Subject(s): Civilization, Medieval | Europe -- History -- 476-1492 | Europe -- Civilization -- Islamic influencesDDC classification: 940.1 Other classification: 15.70 Online resources: Table of contents only | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-448) and index.
The superpowers -- ""The Arabs are coming!"" -- ""Jihad!"" -- The co-opted caliphate and the stumbling Jihad -- The year 711 -- Picking up the pieces after Rome -- The myth of Poitiers -- The fall and rise of the Umayyads -- Saving the popes -- An empire of force and faith -- Carolingian Jihads: Roncesvalles and Saxony -- The great mosque -- The first Europe, briefly -- Equipoise--delicate and doomed -- Disequilibrium Pelayo's revenge -- Knowledge transmitted, rationalism repudiated: Ibn Rushd and Musa ibn Maymun.
In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian re-examines what we thought we knew. Lewis reveals how cosmopolitan, Muslim al-Andalus flourished--a beacon of cooperation and tolerance between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity--while proto-Europe made virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, religious intolerance, perpetual war, and slavery.--From publisher description.
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