God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215
by David Levering Lewis
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Author: David Levering LewisEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-21
ISBN: 0393064727
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Book Review: Extreme Bias
Summary: 1 Stars
This book is so extremely biased as to be silly. For example, speaking with regret of the victory of Charles Martel at Poitiers:
"The European shape of things to come was set for dismal centuries following one upon the other until the Commercial Revolution and the Enlightenment."
So short shrift is given to the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Discovery etc. etc.
Summary of 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 reexamines what we once thought we knew.At the beginning of the eighth century, the Arabs brought a momentous revolution in power, religion, and culture to Dark Ages Europe. David Levering Lewis's masterful history begins with the fall of the Persian and Roman empires, followed by the rise of the prophet Muhammad and the creation of Muslim Spain. Five centuries of engagement between the Muslim imperium and an emerging Europe followed, from the Muslim conquest of Visigoth Hispania in 711 to Latin Christendom's declaration of unconditional warfare on the Caliphate in 1215. 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. A cautionary tale, God's Crucible provides a new interpretation of world-altering events whose influence remains as current as today's headlines. 8 pages of color illustrations; 4 maps.
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