01525cam a2200205 a 4500 9780393064728 (hbk.) 0393064727 (hbk.) ENG 940.1 LEW Lewis, David L., God's crucible : Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2008. xxv, 473 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 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. 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. Civilization, Medieval. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0727/2007038000.html BK 0 0 0 0 HMI HMI GEN 2023-09-07 Netherlands 3618.00 0 940.1 LEW 11-4730 2023-09-07 2023-09-07 BK 23350 23350