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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David L Lewis |
| ISBN: | 9780393064728 0393064727 9780393333565 0393333566 |
| OCLC Number: | 172521784 |
| Description: | xxv, 473 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | David Levering Lewis. |
Abstract:
Provides accounts of some of the greatest battles fought and reveals how cosmopolitan Muslim al-Andalus flourished - a beacon of co-operation between Islam, Judaism and Christianity - while
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