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, rationa
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88-1300
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Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215 /
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25 cm.
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David Levering Lewis.
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ill. (some col.), maps ;
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43
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-277) and index.