01652cam a2200217 a 4500020002500000020002200025041000800047082001500055100002100070245006300091250001200154260003700166300006200203505052000265520042300785650002801208856005901236942000701295952011501302999001701417  a9780393064728 (hbk.)  a0393064727 (hbk.)  aENG00a940.1bLEW1 aLewis, David L.,10aGod's crucible : Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215   a1st ed.  aNew York :bW.W. Norton,cc2008.  axxv, 473 p., [8] p. of plates :bill. (some col.), maps ;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.  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. 0aCivilization, Medieval.41uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0727/2007038000.html  cBK  00104070aHMIbHMIcGENd2023-09-07eNetherlandsg3618.00l0o940.1 LEWp11-4730r2023-09-07w2023-09-07yBK  c23350d23350