Download or read book God's Crucible written by David Levering Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reexamines the fall of the Persian and Roman empires, followed by the rise of the prophet Muhammad and the creation of Muslim Spain. color illustrations.