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100 1 _aLewis, David L.,
_d1936-
245 1 0 _aGod's crucible :
_bIslam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215 /
_cDavid Levering Lewis.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton,
_cc2008.
300 _axxv, 473 p., [8] p. of plates :
_bill. (some col.), maps ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 439-448) and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
520 _aIn 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.
650 0 _aCivilization, Medieval.
651 0 _aEurope
_xHistory
_y476-1492.
651 0 _aEurope
_xCivilization
_xIslamic influences.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0727/2007038000.html
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