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041			_aENG
082	0	0	_a940.1 _bLEW
100	1		_aLewis, David L.,
245	1	0	_aGod's crucible : Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton, _cc2008.
300			_axxv, 473 p., [8] p. of plates : _bill. (some col.), maps ;
505	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.
520			_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.
650		0	_aCivilization, Medieval.
856	4	1	_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0727/2007038000.html
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