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Source: BBC Radio 4 "Thinking Allowed"

Roundup

3-12-08

David Levering-Lewis on Euro-Islamaphobia [audio 1st 14min]

NYU Professor of History and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering-Lewis talks about his new book, God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215, focusing on a period during which"Islam and Christianity uneasily co-existed on the continent just beginning to be known as Europe".

Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "Thinking Allowed"