Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670-1840.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rethinking Islam in the Eighteenth Century -- 1 A True Protestant Mahometan: Henry Stubbe, Ottoman Hungary, and the Siege of Vienna -- 2 Letters from a Female Deist: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Muslim Women, and Freethinking Feminism -- 3 In Defense of the Ancient Mughal Constitution: Edmund Burke, India, and the Warren Hastings Trial -- 4 Ali Bonaparte in Hermetic Egypt: The Colonial Politics of Walter Savage Landor's Gebir -- 5 The Flight and Return of Mohammed: Plotting Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and Robert Southey's Unitarian Epic -- 6 A Last Woman's Eschatology: The Avenging Turks in Mary Shelley's The Last Man -- Epilogue: Postcolonial Reflections -- Appendix A: Outline of "MOHAMMED" -- Appendix B: Southey's Sketch of "MOHAMMED" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The direct challenge it poses to the idea of an exclusionary Judeo-Christian Enlightenment serves as an important revision to post-9/11 narratives about a historical clash between Western democratic values and Islam.

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