TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,David Levering
TI  - God's crucible: Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215 
SN  - 9780393064728 (hbk.)
U1  - 940.1 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York ; , London : 
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Civilization, Medieval
KW  - History and Geography
KW  - Islam
KW  - Making of Europe
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 476-1492
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Islamic influences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-448) and index; 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0727/2007038000.html
ER  -