| Description |
xxv, 473 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Civilisation |
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Civilization, Medieval |
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Europe |
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Europe - Civilization - Islamic influences |
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Europe - History - 476-1492 |
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History, Pre-1801 |
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Islam |
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Overseas item |
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Social impact |
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Spain |
| Notes |
Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton, c2008 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-448) and index |
| Notes |
Long listed for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, 2009 |
| Subject |
Umayyad dynasty.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Muslims -- Europe -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- History -- 476-1492. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045690
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Europe -- Civilization -- Islamic influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00001424
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Europe -- Civilization -- Islamic influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00001424
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Europe -- History -- 476-1492. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045690
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| LC no. |
2007038000 |
| ISBN |
0393064727 |
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0393333566 |
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9780393064728 |
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9780393333565 |
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