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David Levering LewisPublication Details
Book1st edW.W. Norton2008Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) D117 .L48 2008 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Lewis’s narrative, filled with accounts of some of the greatest battles in world history, reveals how cosmopolitan, Muslim al-Andalus flourished?a beacon of cooperation and tolerance between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity?while proto-Europe, defining itself in opposition to Islam, made virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, religious intolerance, perpetual war, and slavery. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prizewinning 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
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
- Equippose
- delicate and doomed
- Disequilibrium Pelayo’s revenge
- Knowledge transmitted, rationalism repudiated: Ibn Rushd and Musa ibn Maymun
ISBN
- 9780393064728
- 0393064727
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