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God's crucible : Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215
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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...
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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- Creator
- David Levering Lewis
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- English
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- New York : W.W. Norton, 2009
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- xxv, 473 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780393333565, 0393333566
- OCLC
- ocn227016282
- Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton, c2008.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 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