God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 - Couverture souple

Lewis, David Levering

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393333566 ISBN 13 : 9780393333565

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2009

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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 W.E.B. Du Bois biography. He lives in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393333566
• ISBN 13: 9780393333565
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 522
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