Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840
By: Humberto Garcia
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781421403533
Subjects: English literature; Enlightenment; Islam in literature; Relations; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: rethinking Islam in the eighteenth century; title: "A true protestant Mahometan": Henry Stubbe, Ottoman Hungary, and the siege of Vienna; title: Letters from a female deist: Lady Mary Wortley, muslim women, and freethinking feminism; title: In defense of the ancient Mughal constitution: Edmund Burke, India and the Warren Hastings trial; title: Hermetic Egypt, Ali Bonaparte, and the colonial politics of Walter Savage Landor's Gebir; title: "The flight and return of Mohammed": plotting Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and Robert Southey's unitarian epic; title: A last woman's eschatology: the avenging Turks in Mary Shelley's The last man; title: Epilogue: postcolonial reflections.