ISBN:
9780231110150
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (281 p)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Miller, Gregory J. [Rezension von: Matar, Nabil, Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery] 2000
Parallel Title:
Print version Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery
DDC:
303.48256
Keywords:
Civilization, Islamic Foreign public opinion, British
;
Public opinion Great Britain
;
Indians First contact with Europeans
;
Middle East History
;
1517-
;
Africa, North History
;
1517-1882
;
Great Britain History
;
Elizabeth, 1558-1603
;
Great Britain History
;
Stuarts, 1603-1714
;
Middle East Relations
;
Great Britain
;
Great Britain Relations
;
Middle East
;
Africa, North Relations
;
Great Britain
;
Great Britain Relations
;
Africa, North
;
Middle East History
;
1517-
;
Africa, North History
;
1517-1882
;
Great Britain History
;
Elizabeth, 1558-1603
;
Great Britain History
;
Stuarts, 1603-1714
;
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Abstract:
During the early modern period, hundreds of Turks and Moors traded in English and Welsh ports, dazzled English society with exotic cuisine and Arabian horses, and worked small jobs in London, while the ""Barbary Corsairs"" raided coastal towns and, if captured, lingered in Plymouth jails or stood trial in Southampton courtrooms. In turn, Britons fought in Muslim armies, traded and settled in Moroccan or Tunisian harbor towns, joined the international community of pirates in Mediterranean and Atlantic outposts, served in Algerian households and ships, and endured captivity from Salee to Alexand
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Turks and Moors in England; 2. Soldiers, Pirates, Traders, and Captives: Britons Among the Muslims; 3. The Renaissance Triangle: Britons, Muslims, and American Indians; 4. Sodomy and Conquest; 5. Holy Land, Holy War; Conclusion: Britons, Muslims, and the Shadow of the American Indians; APPENDIX A: English Captivity Accounts, 1577-1704; APPENDIX B: The Journey of the First Levantine to America: Being the Wandering of the Priest Ilyas Son of the Cleric Hanna al-Mawsuli form the Ammoon al-Kildani Family: 1668-1683; APPENDIX C: Ahmad Bin Qasim on Sodomy ; Notes
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