American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 23:2
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 23:2

Author: Helena Kaler

Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)

Published: 2006-03-07

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13:

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The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process.

Turning Turk
Turning Turk

Author: D. Vitkus

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1137052929

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Turning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures in the early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of that experience on the London stage. Vitkus's book demonstrates that the English encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representations inspired by that encounter, helped to form the emergent identity of an English nation that was eagerly fantasizing about having an empire, but was still in the preliminary phase of its colonizing drive. Vitkus' research shows how plays about the multi-cultural Mediterranean participated in this process of identity formation, and how anxieties about religious conversion, foreign trade and miscegenation were crucial factors in the formation of that identity.

Doing Kyd
Doing Kyd

Author: Nicoleta Cinpoes

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-07-30

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1526108941

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Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a ‘pattern and precedent’ for the golden generation of early modern playwrights, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Middleton, Webster and Ford. Interdisciplinary in approach and accessible in style, this collection is crucial in two respects: firstly, it has a wide spectrum, addressing readers with interests in the play from its early impact as the first sixteenth-century revenge tragedy, to its afterlife in print, on the stage, in screen adaptation and bibliographical studies. Secondly, the collection appears at a time when Kyd and his play are back in the spotlight, through renewed critical interest, several new stage productions between 2009 and 2013, and its firm presence in higher-education curriculum for English and drama.

Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage
Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage

Author: Jane Hwang Degenhardt

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2010-08-19

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 074868655X

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This book explores the threat of Christian conversion to Islam in twelve early modern English plays. In works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger, and others, conversion from Christianity to Islam is represented as both tragic and erotic, as a fate worse t

Imagined, Embodied and Actual Turks in Early Modern Europe
Imagined, Embodied and Actual Turks in Early Modern Europe

Author: Bent Holm

Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag

Published: 2021-07-23

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 3990121251

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The confrontation between European countries and the expanding Ottoman Empire in the early modern era has played a major role in numerous fields of history. The aim of this book is to investigate the European-Ottoman interrelations from three angles. One deals with the circumstances: How did the Europeans meet the Turks in pragmatic and diplomatic connections? Another concerns imagery: how were the Turks depicted in literature and art? The third examines performativity: how were the Turks inserted into plays, operas and ceremonies? This book confronts mental, visual and embodied images with historical positions and conditions. The focus, therefore, is on the dynamic interactive processes of experience, embodiment and imagination in context. Bringing together Turkish and European scholars, it applies a number of research strategies used by historians to the history of art, literature, music and theatre. Contributions by Pál Ács | Robert Born | Asli Çirakman | Anne Duprat | Kate Fleet | Bent Holm | Marcus Keller | Maria Pia Pedani | Mogens Pelt | Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen | Günsel Renda | Pia Schwarz Lausten | Charlotte Colding Smith | Suna Suner | Dirk Van Waelderen

'Hamlet' Without Hamlet
'Hamlet' Without Hamlet

Author: Margreta de Grazia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-01-11

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 0521870259

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A study tracing the impact and evolution of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Becoming Christian
Becoming Christian

Author: Dennis Austin Britton

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2014-04-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0823257169

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Becoming Christian argues that romance narratives of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity register theological formations of race in post-Reformation England. The medieval motif of infidel conversion came under scrutiny as Protestant theology radically reconfigured how individuals acquire religious identities. Whereas Catholicism had asserted that Christian identity begins with baptism, numerous theologians in the Church of England denied the necessity of baptism and instead treated Christian identity as a racial characteristic passed from parents to their children. The church thereby developed a theology that both transformed a nation into a Christian race and created skepticism about the possibility of conversion. Race became a matter of salvation and damnation. Britton intervenes in critical debates about the intersections of race and religion, as well as in discussions of the social implications of romance. Examining English translations of Calvin, treatises on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons alongside works by Edmund Spenser, John Harrington, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and Phillip Massinger, Becoming Christian demonstrates how a theology of race altered a nation’s imagination and literary landscape.

Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England
Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England

Author: Daniel J. Vitkus

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780231110280

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Of particular interest in understanding the West's long tradition of demonising Islam, this volume makes available for the first time carefully edited, annotated, modern-spelling editions of three important early modern Turk plays.

The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage
The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage

Author: Lisa Hopkins

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-03-07

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1501514172

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Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book explores how Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented places where Christians came up against Turks, including Malta, Tunis, Hungary, and Armenia. Some forms of Christianity itself might seem alien, so the book also considers the interface between traditional Catholicism, new forms of Protestantism, and Greek and Russian orthodoxy. But it also finds that the concept of Christendom was under threat in other places, some much nearer to home. Edges of Christendom could be found in areas that were or had been pagan, such as Rome itself and the Danelaw, which once covered northern England; they could even be found in English homes and gardens, where imported foreign flowers and exotic new ingredients challenged the concept of what was native and natural.