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020 $a0393064727 (hbk.)
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050 00 $aD117$b.L48 2008
082 00 $a940.1$222
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100 1 $aLewis, David L.,$d1936-
245 10 $aGod's crucible :$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.
651 0 $aEurope$xHistory$y476-1492.
651 0 $aEurope$xCivilization$xIslamic influences.
650 0 $aCivilization, Medieval.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0727/2007038000.html