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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Lewis, David Levering, 1936-     Subjects     Civilization, Medieval     Europe -- History -- 476-1492.     Europe -- Civilization -- Islamic influences.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lewis, David Levering, 1936-       by title:      God's crucible : Isl...         MARC Display

God's crucible : Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215 / David Levering Lewis. by Lewis, David Levering, 1936- New York : W.W. Norton, c2008. Subjects Civilization, Medieval   Europe -- History -- 476-1492.   Europe -- Civilization -- Islamic influences. ISBN:  9780393064728 (hbk.) 0393064727 (hbk.) Description:  xxv, 473 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. Edition:  1st ed. 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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library LLH Closed Stacks 940.1 Le Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.1 Le Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wailuku Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.1 Le Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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