TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garcia,Humberto
TI  - Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840
SN  - 9781421403533 (hardcover : alk. paper)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Islam in literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - 18th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Relations
KW  - Islamic countries
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-333) and index; 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
ER  -