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Schemel Forum Luncheon - When There Were Two Europes: Islam and Christendom

Wednesday, 18 November, 2015

The Schemel Forum World Affairs Luncheon Series
When There Were Two Europes: Islam and Christendom

David Levering Lewis, Ph.D.
Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus, New York University

By the close of the thirteenth century a Christian reconquest, fueled by religious zeal and superior military power, had occupied Muslim Toledo, conquered the Cordoban caliphate and overwhelmed the caliphate’s successor city-states. Even so an “Indian Summer” of Christian, Muslim and Jewish philosophical, literary and scientific collaboration persisted long after the fall of Toledo (1085). As Muslim Europe appeared to vanish Christian Europe experienced a Renaissance and an Age of Discovery underpinned by the philosophical commentaries and navigational advances derived from Islamized Iberia.

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