Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 /

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Autore principale:	Garcia, Humberto, 1978-
Natura:	Elettronico eBook
Lingua:	inglese
Pubblicazione:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Soggetti:	English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Enlightenment > Great Britain. Islam in literature. Great Britain > Relations > Islamic countries. Islamic countries > Relations > Great Britain. Electronic books.
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Introduction: rethinking Islam in the eighteenth century
"A true protestant Mahometan": Henry Stubbe, Ottoman Hungary, and the siege of Vienna
Letters from a female deist: Lady Mary Wortley, muslim women, and freethinking feminism
In defense of the ancient Mughal constitution: Edmund Burke, India and the Warren Hastings trial
Hermetic Egypt, Ali Bonaparte, and the colonial politics of Walter Savage Landor's Gebir
"The flight and return of Mohammed": plotting Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and Robert Southey's unitarian epic
A last woman's eschatology: the avenging Turks in Mary Shelley's The last man
Epilogue: postcolonial reflections.

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