Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 /
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| Formaat: | Elektronisch E-boek |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2011.
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| Online toegang: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Inhoudsopgave:
- 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.