01961cam a2200277 i 4500 1262080456 TxAuBib 080501s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780393333565 pbk. 0393333566 pbk. eng rda TxAuBib rda Lewis, David Levering, 1936- God's crucible : Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215 / David Levering Lewis. New York : W.W. Norton, 2009. xxv, 473 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton, c2008. 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. 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. Civilization, Medieval. Europe History 476-1492. Europe Civilization Islamic influences.