Islam, England, and Identity in the Early Modern Period: A Review of Recent Scholarship

1 Yet Elizabethan travelers did not anxiously ponder the East in isolation; as England increasingly interacted with Islam, Islam increasingly played a role in shaping English identity. Since Edward Said's Orientalism (1979) gave primacy to the role of the Islamic Other in shaping European selfc...

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Published in:Mediterranean studies (Kirksville, Mo.) Mo.), 2009-01, Vol.18 (1), p.114-130
Main Author: Topinka, Robert J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Archaeology
Boundaries
British & Irish literature
British culture
Christian Islamic relations
Christianity
Cross cultural studies
Cultural identity
Dryden, John (1631-1700)
Early Modern Period
English language
English literature
History
Ideology
Islam
Language culture relationship
Muslims
Orientalism
Ottoman Empire
Said, Edward
Studies
Theater
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Summary:1 Yet Elizabethan travelers did not anxiously ponder the East in isolation; as England increasingly interacted with Islam, Islam increasingly played a role in shaping English identity. Since Edward Said's Orientalism (1979) gave primacy to the role of the Islamic Other in shaping European selfconceptions, scholarship has highlighted the ideological formation of European identity in the early modern period, an identity not formed behind cultural lines but forged in the clash between cultures.2 In short, the West imagined itself in contrast to the East.
ISSN:1074-164X
2161-4741
DOI:10.2307/41163965