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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      27 October 2009
      13 October 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511582738
      9780521622332
      9780521048972
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582738
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.465kg, 240 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.366kg, 240 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Islam, British History after 1450, History, Religion
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    This book examines the impact of Islam on Britain between 1558 and 1685. Professor Matar provides a perspective on the transformation of British thought and society by demonstrating how influential Islam was in the formation of early modern British culture. Christian-Muslim interaction was not, as is often thought, primarily adversarial; rather, there was extensive cultural, intellectual and missionary engagement with Islam in Britain. The author documents conversion both to and from Islam, and surveys reactions to these conversions. He examines the impact of the Qur'an and Sufism, not to mention coffee, on British culture, and cites extensive interaction of Britons with Islam through travel, in London coffee houses, in church, among converts to and from Islam, in sermons and in plays. Finally, he focuses on the theological portrait of Muslims in conversionist and eschatological writings.

    Reviews

    ‘The origins of both British attitudes to Islam are charted in Nabil Matar’s brilliant and gripping study, an astonishing compendium of groundbreaking research whose very title is a measure of quite how original and surprising this book is … but it is also warmly and wittily written and, unusually for a heavyweight academic book, enormously readable and accessible. It is certainly the most surprising book I have read for many months.

    William Dalrymple Source: The Sunday Times

    ‘ … a treasure trove of a book … this will appeal not only to scholars, but also to those who like their history to consist primarily of facts and evidence, and only secondarily of theories.’

    Noel Malcolm Source: Sunday Telegraph

    ‘I recommend you beg, borrow or steal a copy of this book, not just for yourself to read, but to send to anyone whose anti-Turkish prejudices overcome their intelligence.’

    David Carter Source: Cyprus Today

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