God's crucible : Islam and the making of Europe, 570 - 1215
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...
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| Sprache: | English |
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New York [u.a.] : W. W. Norton,
2008
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| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
| Schlagworte: | Europe Civilization, Medieval Europa Islam Geschichte 570-1215 |
| Umfang: | XXV, 473 S., [4] Bl. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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