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God's crucible : Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215
- Title
- God's crucible : Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215 / David Levering Lewis.
- Author
- Lewis, David Levering, 1936-
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, ©2008.
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Details
- Description
- xxv, 473 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prizewinning 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-448) and index.
- Contents
- 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 -- Equippose--delicate and doomed -- Disequilibrium Pelayo's revenge -- Knowledge transmitted, rationalism repudiated: Ibn Rushd and Musa ibn Maymun.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-1068
- ISBN
- 9780393064728 (hbk.)
- 0393064727 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2007038000
- OCLC
- 172521784
- Author
- Lewis, David Levering, 1936-
- Title
- God's crucible : Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215 / David Levering Lewis.
- Imprint
- New York : W.W. Norton, ©2008.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-448) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-1068