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God's crucible : Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215 / David Levering Lewis

By:

Lewis, David Levering, 1936-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton , c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxv, 473 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cmISBN:

9780393064728

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DDC classification:

940.1 LEW

LOC classification:

D117 .L48 2008

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 -- Equipoise--delicate and doomed -- Disequilibrium Pelayo's revenge -- Knowledge transmitted, rationalism repudiated: Ibn Rushd and Musa ibn Maymun.

Summary: 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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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	940.1 LEW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		034387

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-448) and index.

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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