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020			_a9780393064728 (hbk.)
020			_a0393064727 (hbk.)
040			_erda
043			_ae------
082	0		_a940.1 _bD A V
100	1		_aLewis, David Levering, _d1936-
245	1	0	_aGod's crucible : _bIslam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215 / _cDavid Levering Lewis.
250			_aFirst edition.
264	3	1	_aNew York ; _aLondon : _bW.W. Norton, _cc2008.
300			_axxv, 473 pages.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 439-448) and index.
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	1	4	_aCivilization, Medieval
650	1	4	_aHistory and Geography
650	1	4	_aIslam
650	1	4	_aMaking of Europe
651		0	_aEurope _xHistory _y476-1492.
651		0	_aEurope _xCivilization _xIslamic influences.
856	4	1	_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0727/2007038000.html
942			_2ddc _cBK
999			_c1869 _d1869