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God's Crucible: Islam and the Making Of Europe (570-1215)
[Paperback - 2018]
david levering lewis
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Category: History
Sub-category: Islamic History
Publisher: Liveright Usa | ISBN: 9781631494307 | Pages: 528
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Resonating as profoundly today as when it was first published to widespread critical acclaim a decade ago, God s Crucible is a bold portrait of Islamic Spain and the birth of modern Europe from one of our greatest historians. David Levering Lewis s narrative, filled with accounts of some of the most epic battles in world history, reveals how cosmopolitan, Muslim al-Andalus flourished-a beacon of cooperation and tolerance-while proto-Europe floundered in opposition to Islam, making virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, religious intolerance, perpetual war and slavery. This masterful history begins with the fall of the Persian and Roman empires, followed by the rise of the prophet Muhammad and five centuries of engagement between the Muslim imperium and an emerging Europe. Essential and urgent, God

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David Levering Lewis, the author of God s Crucible, is professor emeritus of history at New York University. A recipient of the National Humanities Medal, Lewis received the Pulitzer Prize for each volume of his WEB Du Bois biography of him. He lives in New York City.

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