Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds

LINDA MCJANNET is a Professor of English at Bentley University, USA.    BERNADETTE ANDREA is a Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.

"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 sense of that word), providing rich and fascinating contextualizations of early modern written texts." - Daniel Vitkus, Professor of English, Florida State University "Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds offers brilliant and nuanced insights into English literary negotiations with Islamic cultures, political Islam, and Islam as a religion in the early modern period. Overall, it provides an important corrective to the anti-Islamic notions of a clash of civilizations." - Jyotsna G. Singh, Professor of English, Michigan State University "Documenting the English views of Muslims in multiple and contradictory ways, sometimes sympathetically, this welcome volume contests reactionary oppositions of East and West and offers nuanced analyses of various Islamic worlds, of their traffic with European economies and cultures, and of their variegated literary and theatrical representations in early modern England. [This volume] contributes valuably to a stimulating cluster of essays that interrogate Ottoman, Persian, and Mughal cultures and open fresh perspectives on an illuminating range of canonical and lesser known English works." - Richmond Barbour, Professor of English, Oregon State University

• 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