Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

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

Illustrations

platesmapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

God's crucible

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

172521784

Responsibility statement

David Levering Lewis

Sub title

Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215

Summary

In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prizewinning 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

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

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