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God's crucible : Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215

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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  • ISBN: 9780393064728
  • ISBN: 0393064727
  • Physical Description: print
    xxv, 473 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, [2008]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-448) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject:
Civilization, Medieval
Europe History 476-1492
Europe Civilization Islamic influences

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  • 15 of 15 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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