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Author:

Lewis, David L., 1936-

Title:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xxv, 473 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Europe--History--476-1492.
Europe--Islamic influences.--Islamic influences.
Civilization, Medieval.

Notes:

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

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.

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.

ISBN:

0393064727 (hbk.)
9780393064728 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)172521784

LCCN:

2007038000

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

TRPE062 -- Vinton Public Library (Vinton)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)