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This orient isle, Elizabethan England and the Islamic world, Jerry Brotton

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This orient isle

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Jerry Brotton

Elizabethan England and the Islamic world

In 1570, after numerous plots and assassination attempts against her, Elizabeth I of England was excommunicated by the Pope. It was the beginning not only of the well-known identification of England with heroic Protestantism, but -- which is almost entirely neglected by historians -- of an English alignment with Islamic powers, and of cultural, economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age. England signed treaties with the Ottoman Porte, received ambassadors from the kings of Morocco and shipped munitions to Marrakech in the hope of establishing an accord which would keep the common enemy of Catholic Spain at bay. This Orient Isle shows that England's relations with the Muslim world were far more extensive, and often more amicable, than we have ever appreciated, and that their influence was felt across the political, commercial and domestic landscape of Elizabethan England

1. Conquering Tunis -- 2. The Sultan, the Tsar and the Shah -- 3. The Battle for Barbary -- 4. An Apt Man in Constantinople -- 5. Unholy Alliances -- 6. Sultana Isabel -- 7. London Turns Turk -- 8. Mahomet's Dove -- 9. Escape from the Seraglio -- 10. Sherley Fever -- 11. More than a Moor

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