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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.1
EAN: 9781400155774
Format: Audiobook, CD, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
ISBN: 1400155770
Label: Tantor Media
Manufacturer: Tantor Media
Number Of Items: 2
Publication Date: January 21, 2008
Publisher: Tantor Media
Sales Rank: 1121997
Studio: Tantor Media
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In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prizea "winning historian reexamines what we once thought we knew. David Levering Lewis's narrative 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.
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When I was studying al-Andalus three years ago, I found plenty of generalist books on Spain, on the spread of Islam, and on understanding elements of Islamic theocratic debate such as the Shia-Sunni split. But I couldn't find a general analysis of the Islam-Christendom interface from Muhammad's birth up to 1453, and that surprised me. Lewis finally has written the type of book one would expect to find plenty of examples of, and has done a decent job.
As other reviewers have pointed ... Read More
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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.
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A scholarly treatment of the subject that contains relatively novel insights, but the book's actual scope is a good deal more narrow than its expansive title suggests. The author should have limited his focus to Spain or concentrated more on other centers of violent or passive interaction between the two faiths. Additionally, the intersparsing of references to more recent phenomenon such as blitzkrieg were historically questionable and detracted from otherwise strong writing. So it was a mixed ... Read More
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The book is great because it brings together all of the factors that brought about Western Europe. I have however one criticism. The author tells about the Roman Catholic Church's excommunication of the followers of the Aristotelian philosophy of Averroes. Lewis implies, however, that this condemnation was scientifically backward like the condemnation of Galileo in later centuries. I would say the condemnation is the beginning of modern science since Aristotle and Averroe were being unscientific. ... Read More
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The thesis that Europe might have been better off in the eighth century under liberal Umayyad Islam than under Charlemagne's conservative European monarchy is interesting. But Lewis points out that Al Andalus was saved, if temporarily, from being over run by the conquistadores by radical Islamic conservatives, making his point in the end unclear.
The book's title says that it ends in 1215. But after about 1050, the story runs out of steam.
And what is an "ideational matrix?"
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