This book examines the impact of Islam on early modern Britain. Christian-Muslim interaction at this time was not, as is often thought, primarily adversarial; rather, there was extensive cultural, intellectual and missionary engagement with Islam. Professor Matar investigates the impact of the Qur'an and sufism on the people of Britain, showing that the British interacted widely with Islamic religion, culture and people through travel, in London coffee houses, in church, among converts to and from Islam, in sermons and in plays.
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"Matar offers a carefully annotated new assessment of the steady impact of Islam on British thought and its ultimate influence on Britain's early modern culture... His grasp of Islamic culture, which enables him to point out the misunderstandings of several famous seventeenth-century writers, also gives a modern student the proper context of a culture which in that earlier period was not properly discovered." Albert J. Loomie, Albion
"Matar's book will interest historians and literary scholars concerned with the religious and cultural history of Britain and its relationship with other societies in the early modern period. Unlike many books on cultural encounters, it is jargon-free and suitable for assignment to advanced undergraduates. Cambridge University Press should be honored for including proper, bottom-of-the-page footnotes and an extensive bibliography." William E. Burns, Sixteenth Century Journal
"...a splendid work of scholarship, and one wishes it the readership it deserves." Religious Studies Review
"...The book is a wonderful corrective to the notion that Islam and Muslims had very little impact on Britian and Britons during this time period." Religious Studies Review
"Matar's book will interest historians and literary scholars concerned with the religious and cultural history of Britain and its relationship with other societies in the early modern period. Unlike many books on cultural encounters, it is jargon-free and suitable for assignment to advanced undergraduates. Cambridge University Press should be honored for including proper, bottom-of-the-page footnotes and an extensive bibliography." William E. Burns, Sixteenth Century Journal
"...a splendid work of scholarship, and one wishes it the readership it deserves." Religious Studies Review
"...The book is a wonderful corrective to the notion that Islam and Muslims had very little impact on Britian and Britons during this time period." Religious Studies Review
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This book examines the impact of Islam on early modern Britain. Christian-Muslim interaction at this time was not, as is often though, primarily adversarial; rather, there was extensive cultural, intellectual and missionary engagement with Islam. Professor Matar investigates the impact of the Qur'an and sufism on the people of Britain, showing that the British interacted widely with Islamic religion, culture and people through travel, in London coffee houses, in church, among converts to and from Islam, in sermons and in plays.
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This review is from: Islam in Britain, 1558-1685 (Paperback)
I would just like to reply to the unfortunate review that precedes mine, which takes issue with the pricing of this book. Matar is among the leading scholars of the Mediterranean Renaissance world in English and Arabic literatures, and this book is the work of his fine research. Your library can afford this book, and you can, too. His chapters, "Turning Turk" and "Baptising the Turk" in particular, are masterful studies of two sides of a valuable coin, and his prose is lovely. You can't afford NOT to buy this book if you are aware of the state of early modern literary studies today.
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Who can afford it?,
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This review is from: Islam in Britain, 1558-1685 (Paperback)
However good this book is it's not worth $43. The publisher should be ashamed for keeping this valuable informative work out of students' hands.
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A year before the Turkey Company's first charter was granted in September 1581, the Ottoman Sultan sent to Queen Elizabeth the terms on which he would permit English traders to conduct commercial activity in his dominions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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A year before the Turkey Company's first charter was granted in September 1581, the Ottoman Sultan sent to Queen Elizabeth the terms on which he would permit English traders to conduct commercial activity in his dominions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Ottoman Empire, New York, Edward Pococke, North Africa, Clarendon Press, Paul Rycaut, Purchas His Pilgrimes, Church of England, Samuel Hartlib, The Present State of the Greek, William Bedwell, Alexander Ross, Thomas Brightman, Arabic Islam, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Queen Elizabeth, Thomas Smith, Eastern Wisedome, Most Delectable, New England, Old Testament, British Isles, Civil Wars, Martin Luther New!
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- Present State of the Ottoman Empire (Eastern Europe Collection Series) by Paul Rycaut on 6 pages
- Studies in the History of the Near East by P.M. Holt on page 86, page 94, and Back Matter
- Seventeenth Century by Paul Noble in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Captain Singleton (Dodo Press) by Daniel Defoe in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Fair Maid of the West (Regents Renaissance Drama) by Thomas Heywood on page 52, page 129, and Back Matter
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