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God's crucible : Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215 / David Levering Lewis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, 2008.Description: xxv, 473 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780393333565
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.1
Contents:
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.
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Book - 7-day loan Book - 7-day loan CYA Library Main Collection 940.1 LEW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00000004302
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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.

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