Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery

✍ Scribed by Matar, Nabil

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 Al. Read more...

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 Al

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 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.

✦ Subjects

Africa, North -- History -- 1517-1882. Africa, North -- Relations -- Great Britain. Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603. Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714. Great Britain -- Relations -- Africa, North. Great Britain -- Relations -- Middle East. Indians -- First contact with Europeans. Islamic civilization -- Foreign public opinion,