Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds [Hardcover]

The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined traffic between England and the Islamic worlds it encountered and constructed.Islamic Worlds in Early Modern English Literature - Bernadette Andrea and Linda McJannet PART I: CHARTING ARABIA AND THE ARABIAN PROPHET From Maurice to Mohammad: Othello, Islam, and Baptism - Andrew Moran Demonizing Spain in Ralegh's The Life and Death of Mahomet - Dennis Britton PART II: ENGLISH VENTURES INTO PERSIANATE CULTURES Persian Icons, Shi'a Imams: Liminal Figures and Hybrid Persian Identities on the English Stage - Javad Ghatta Tartar Masques in Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomeries Urania, Part II - Bernadette Andrea Mariam Khan and the Legacy of Mughal Women in Early Modern Literature of India - Bindu Malieckal PART III: TURK PLAYS AND ENGLISH IDENTITY FORMATION By my Owne Experience or the Most probablest Relation off Others': Peter Mundy's MS Account of Constantinople (1617-20) - Philip Palmer Guy of Warwick, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Elizabethan Repertory - Annaliese Connolly 'Now will I be a Turke': Performing Ottoman Identity in Thomas Goffe's The Courageous Turk - Joel Slotkin PART IV: ENGLAND'S TRAFFIC WITH ITS EASTS The Frontiers of Twelfth Nigh t - Su Fang Ng 'A Turk's mustachio': Anglo-Islamic Exchange and the Development of Urban Character in Ben Jonson's City Comedies - Justin Kolb 'Oranges and Lemons say the Bells of St. Clement's': Domesticating Eastern Commodities in London Comedies - Linda McJannet

This is a very strong collection that will add significantly to current scholarship on Anglo-Islamic relations in the Early Modern period. It goes beyond the obsession with the Ottoman Turks in early modern writing, to demonstrate the importance of Arabs, Persians, Tartars, Mughals, and other Muslims. The methodology is strongly historicist (in the best sensló