Lewis, David Levering, 1936- <br/><br/>
God's crucible  : Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215 
/ David Levering Lewis 
 - 1st ed 
 - New York  : W.W. Norton  , c2008. 
 - xxv, 473 p., [8] p. of plates  : ill. (some col.), maps  ; 25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-448) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780393064728 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007038000 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014015817   Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civilization, Medieval
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Fascism---Europe----Fiction<br/>Europe---Civilization---Islamic influences
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D117  / .L48 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>940.1 LEW