Lewis, David L.  1936- <br/><br/>
God's crucible :  Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215 / 
David Levering Lewis. 
 - New York :  W.W. Norton,  2008. 
 - xxv, 473 p., [8] p. of plates :  ill. (some col.), maps ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-448) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780393333565 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civilization, Medieval
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Europe--History--476-1492<br/>Europe--Civilization--Islamic influences
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>940.1