God's crucible
Subtitle: Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215
By: David Levering Lewis
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9780393064728
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval; Europe -- History -- 476-1492; Europe -- Civilization -- Islamic influences
Description: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-448) and index
Table of contents: title: The superpowers; title: "The Arabs are coming!"; title: "Jihad!"; title: The co-opted caliphate and the stumbling Jihad; title: The year 711; title: Picking up the pieces after Rome; title: The myth of Poitiers; title: The fall and rise of the Umayyads; title: Saving the popes; title: An empire of force and faith; title: Carolingian Jihads: Roncesvalles and Saxony; title: The great mosque; title: The first Europe, briefly; title: Equippose; title: delicate and doomed; title: Disequilibrium Pelayo's revenge; title: Knowledge transmitted, rationalism repudiated: Ibn Rushd and Musa ibn Maymun