God's crucible

Description:

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.

subjects: Civilization,  Civilization, Medieval,  History,  Islamic influences,  Medieval Civilization,  Islamisering,  Historia,  Cultuur,  Islamiska influenser,  Islam,  Civilization, medieval,  Europe, history, 476-1492,  Europe, civilization,  Islam, europe,  15.70 history of Europe

Places: Europe,  Middellandse-Zeegebied,  Europa

Times: 476-1492,  medeltiden