Download or read book The Witsdom of Mustafa Ali written by Eric K. Sorensen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you cannot laugh at yourself, you are in serious trouble! This and other bits of witsdom (wit and wisdom), poetry, and stories from musician and poet Mustafa Ali will sometimes make you laugh or pause and say, Hmmm . . . Read them only a few at a time, turn them over in your mind, and find the many levels of wisdom contained within.

Download or read book Wisdom of the Idiots written by Idries Shah and published by Octagon Press Ltd. This book was released on 1989 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from the Sufi tradition, illustrating Sufi philosophy and ways of thinking.

Download or read book Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire written by Cornell H. Fleischer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mustafa Ali was the foremost historian of the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Most modern scholars of the Ottoman period have focused on economic and institutional issues, but this study uses Ali and his works as the basis for analyzing the nature of intellectual and social life in a formative period of the Ottoman Empire. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book Allies with the Infidel written by Christine Isom-Verhaaren and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1543, the Ottoman fleet appeared off the coast of France to bombard and lay siege to the city of Nice. The operation, under the command of Admiral Barbarossa, came in response to a request from François I of France for assistance from Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent in France's struggle against Charles V, the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. This military alliance between mutual 'infidels', the Christian French King and the Muslim Sultan, aroused intense condemnation on religious grounds from the Habsburgs and their supporters as an aberration from accepted diplomacy. Allies with the Infidel places the events of 1543 and the subsequent wintering of the Ottoman fleet in Toulon in the context of the power politics of the sixteenth century. Using contemporary Ottoman and French sources, it presents the realpolitik of diplomacy with 'infidels' in the early modern era.Th e result is essential reading for students and scholars of European

Download or read book Vampire s Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse written by Teejay LeCapois and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salaam, my friends. My name is Omar Ismail. I was born in Calgary, Alberta, to a Somali Muslim immigrant father and a white Canadian mother. Growing up, I never really fit in anywhere. Life is not exactly easy for interracial families out here in redneck country. When I started classes at Mount Royal University, I thought I'd finally be free. Then the Zombie Apocalypse happened, and I found myself in a military unit dedicated to eradicating the Undead. My unit was attacked by a new threat, the Legion of Vampires. Alawa Anakausuen, a Vampire Queen of Cree First Nations descent, turned me into one of them. Now, along with my new Vampire allies, I must battle both the living and the dead to survive in this mad world. Welcome to my absolutely fabulous Afterlife.

Download or read book Mustafa li s Epic Deeds of Artists written by Esra Akın and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-10 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest known Ottoman literary source about the lives and works of calligraphers, painters, limners, and book-binders of the Ottoman and Persianate worlds, Mustafa ʿÂli’s (1541-1600) Epic Deeds of Artists (1587), was hitherto considered to be primarily a biographic dictionary. Based on a comprehensive reading of the descriptive and analytic tools of ʿÂli’s biographical writings as well as his passionately penned personal reflections on sixteenth-century attitudes toward art and artists, this critical edition by Esra Akın-Kıvanç brings to the fore the significance of Epic Deeds not only as a guide to the connoisseurs and aficionados of the time, but also as a fascinating commentary by a prominent intellectual on the spiritual meaning and material value of art.

Download or read book Aisha s Cushion written by Jamal J. Elias and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media coverage of the Danish cartoon crisis and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan left Westerners with a strong impression that Islam does not countenance depiction of religious imagery. Jamal J. Elias corrects this view by revealing the complexity of Islamic attitudes toward representational religious art. Aisha’s Cushion emphasizes Islam’s perceptual and intellectual modes and in so doing offers the reader both insight into Islamic visual culture and a unique way of seeing the world. Aisha’s Cushion evaluates the controversies surrounding blasphemy and iconoclasm by exploring Islamic societies at the time of Muhammad and the birth of Islam; during early contact between Arab Muslims and Byzantine Christians; in medieval Anatolia and India; and in modern times. Elias’s inquiry then goes further, to situate Islamic religious art in a global context. His comparisons with Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu attitudes toward religious art show them to be as contradictory as those of Islam. Contemporary theories about art’s place in society inform Elias’s investigation of how religious objects have been understood across time and in different cultures. Elias contends that Islamic perspectives on representation and perception should be sought not only in theological writings or aesthetic treatises but in a range of Islamic works in areas as diverse as optics, alchemy, dreaming, calligraphy, literature, vehicle and home decoration, and Sufi metaphysics. Unearthing shades of meaning in Islamic thought throughout history, Elias offers fresh insight into the relations among religion, art, and perception across a broad range of cultures.

Download or read book METAPHYSICAL WISDOM CORPUS written by MUSTAFA KARNAS and published by Noetika Medya Yayıncılık Danışmanlık Bilişim.tur.san.ve Tic.a.ş. . This book was released on 2022-10-22 with total page 1085 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS - CREATING INDUCTION THROUGH THE OBSERVANT'S MIRROR - THE EFFECT OF ALEMICAL CRUSHING ON FATE.. I EXIST FROM THE MODEL TO ALL - - UNION OF FORCES SEPARATION OF FORCES BALANCE OF FORCES IN THE METHAPHIC FIELD - - TRUE MAGIC AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH KARMA AND FATE - MAJI-KARMA-FATE - - ORE-LAND RELATIONSHIP METAPHYSICAL EFFECTS. - TECHNIQUES OF PARADIGM CHANGE IN THE METAPHIC FIELD - - INTERPRETATION-EXPLANATION OF IBNI ARABI WORDS THERE IS A METAPHYSICAL MATHEMATICS, MECHANICS AND DYNAMICS OF INTENTION - - FIELD OF THE DEVIL - - REFERENCES AND METAPHYSICAL REFERENCES - WHAT ARE METAPHYSICAL REFERENCES? - METAPHYSICAL WISDOM AND ERGONOMICS - IN THE METHAPHIC FIELD - WHAT PRINCIPLES ARE THE PROTOCOLIZATIONS BASED ON AND WHY ARE THEY NECESSARY? - - GOD'S EVENTS (HADITH-EVENTS), THE METAPHYSICS OF GOD, THE GOD OF EVENTS - - CREATIVITY-NORTH AND PERCEPTION DIMENSIONS - - COMPETENT PEOPLE METAPHYSICS; I KNOW IT, I CREATE IT BECAUSE I KNOW - - COMPETENT PEOPLE METAPHYSICS; I KNOW IT, I CREATE IT BECAUSE I KNOW - - MARİFETULLAH CONSCIOUSNESS - - HOW IS THE PROCESS OF SUSTAINABILITY EXPLAINED FROM METAPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVE? -PHYSICS-METAPHYSICAL FIVE MATCHING THEORY PRACTICE.. -METAPHYSICAL PROFILING - MANAGING THE FLOW OF FATE WITH METAPHYSICAL SYSTEMS -METAVERSE-CONTRAVERSE SYSTEMATICS IN METAPHYSICAL WISDOM -USE OF THE SEVEN HERMETIC PRINCIPLES IN METAPHYSICAL WISDOM -EMERALD TABLETS -ORGANIZATION -OMNILOGY - THE SCIENCE OF EVERYTHING -HOW METHODS USE A METAPHYSICAL SAGE IN THINKING, THE ART OF CONSIDERING. -COSMIC UNCONSCIOUSNESS… -KARMIC BALANCING.. -HOW IT HAPPEN IF STABILIZATION HAPPENS, KARMIC BALANCING.. -METHAPHIC HARVEST.. -SOCRATES' FARM.. -METAPHYSICS-HUMAN-YOU AND METAVERSE.. -METAPHYSICS-HUMAN-YOU AND METAVERSE.. PRESENTATION COMPETENT PEOPLE METAPHYSICS; I KNOW IT, I CREATE IT BECAUSE I KNOW Competent people-the poles-this is the most important point on which metaphysical systems converge, and they all agree about the competent people. What are competent people? They somehow form the pillars of existence, sustain it, are the structures that sustain the system. What idea does this stem from? As a metaphysical principle, it is necessary to find a reason for creation, if there is a god, why did he create creation, what is the reason for this? So there must be - there must be - a reason, it is based here, the knowledge of reason. He says "I was a gem, I wanted to be known", so the reason is to want to be known, what is it? Your ore. What is ore? The first substance, that is, the potential of something, like the ore-jewel relationship, the thing that shows the ore is its processing, that is, the god wanted to be processed, this is the reason. CREATING INDUCTION THROUGH THE OBSERVANT'S MIRROR What technique did God use when he was creating? Creation continues in continuity at the moment. Religious books give different answers to these situations, everyone tells what they have in their bags. For example, the angel Gabriel has a duty to create storms, every angel has a job, and the chosen spirits, which they call holy spirits, also perform some duties. God has an innumerable number of angels made up of angels, each doing a job. What kind of technique is this, does god use a technique? Reply; Yeah. So, can you people use this technique in your own life? Reply; yes, we can call it the induction technique. How is it? First of all, we will go over metaphysical values ​​again, of course, creation means reaching a destiny, in this way, there are various destinies on a line or on a cycle. In other words, there is such a thing as faith in destiny, it has been written before, but this destiny is the destiny of possibilities. Think of it this way, you only have three numbers; 1-2-3, no other numbers, these three numbers are your potential destiny, so you are confined here. What can you do with these three numbers? Here, knowledge, wisdom and effort come into play, you can do subtraction, addition, permutation, they are all your destiny, but the number 4 is outside of your destiny, there is nothing written for you there, you can create-change here. Simply God has a science, there are many options you can make with the numbers 1-2-3 in this science, all of them are written for you, the rest is to learn the science and technique of it. In time, you will understand what potential you have by using the science of nature. So each result creates a pattern, a kind of pattern. Creation also means that a person moves from one mold to another and is reshaped there, that is, models and patterns are also present there. For example 1-2:1, this pattern already exists, you pour yourself into it, there creation takes place. This is how God does these things by his people, there is nothing unknown, let me give you another example. For example, you in position A- are having a problem, let's call it position A in distress. Then you asked for the help of the angel with the permission of Allah, and for some reason the angel decided to help you, for example, you wish for healing, you are sick, you have a wish for healing. That is, the disease is a model, your healed state is another model, the angel has healed you from the position of illness. puts it in position. For example, it does not make a giraffe out of you, it does not create such a possibility for you, or it does not give you immortality. We have the mirror of the observer, the observer and the creation process, for an observer, again based on faith in destiny, let's assume that the potential number 1-2 is the variation of these two numbers that an observer can see in his mirror no matter what he does, nothing else. It can increase the possibilities with knowledge, but there is a but there. In fact, God takes care of his work, namely his creation, with these aims. While the observer sees his own possibilities in his mirror, he reaches the paradox of infinite mirrors since he is also an observed to those possibilities. Just like the servant whom God loves and the servant who loves God very much, these are the reflections of man as a servant in God, the observing god determines the area he observes with the fate and potential of the observer. It sounds complicated, but it's not, it all falls into place towards the end. So how does this happen? We are talking about a single human being, the observer and the agent-interfering person, where is the field he/she observes? He cannot observe anything but manifestation, that is, he observes creation. Observing it creates its own combination. For example, when looking at a work of art, one person looks with admiration, respects the effort for the art there, and another looks with envy, both of which are potentials within those numerical possibilities. For example, one commits a sin, one observer looks forgiving, the other looks vindictive and vengeful, which is choosing a destiny within possibilities. Now let's look at the rest of the sentence, the concept of induction, what is that concept? This is a very interesting concept, it is a technology that is already used today, but even those who use or create this technology do not know the essence of the business, and here is the secret of creation. God's creation technique is induction, it is to change the structure of a substance without touching it, we can also call it the power of thought, that is, if you hit the iron with a hammer, the iron will be crushed. What is creation? It means breaking the will of something. What is will? Any substance has a self-preservation, that is, a resistance structure to maintain its current shape, which is also a necessary thing. So, if an outside force wants to create on something external, it has to break its will. For example, the cracking of the seed means the breaking of the will of the seed. Why does he have willpower? Because God protects it, that is, he does it so that it does not break in an incorrect and unsuitable environment, that is, in areas where creation will not take place. The seed cracks in the soil in various special circumstances, like this, because only there it can enter into creation. In other words, God creates his creations by breaking the shell of things, breaking his will to resist, and in this way he creates constantly. According to what and for what purpose does God constantly create? Here again induction comes into play. God chooses creation, but you choose how to create, that's the interesting part. For example, electrolysis technique is an induction technique, what is it? You put a metal in acidic or silver or chrome water, you give electricity to the metal, the electrified metal attracts the liquid metal in the water and becomes a coating. The other technique that does this is psychic therapy by suggestion, that is, no surgical procedure, all by using a technique from afar and suitable for the next possibility of the thing. For example, you cannot apply this technique to plastic, it is not among its fate options, there is no electrolysis, what does that mean? As a potentially destiny item, your creation pattern determines the possibilities. In other words, while creating God, he connected the system to a kind of automatic order, your destiny as a subject, and a creation on you with the knowledge that comes over your attempt as a subject. That is, a kind of breaking of will followed by remodeling for change, that is, creation, is in the form of both the observed and the observing you having reached any of your destiny possibilities at that moment, getting sick is a possibility, getting healed is a possibility, it's all there. Let's look at the creation process of god based on scriptures; seven layers of heaven and above it the chair of God, that is, the universe created by God. Think of it this way, nine balls are intertwined; The first ball is our universe, the next seven floors are seven heavens, the last one is the lectern, which we also call the god floor, we have such a model, four archangels hold this lectern, these are of course a symbolic expression, but we will look at what it tells. Where could God have started creation? After God created all these and his angels, he creates Adam, determines the Doomsday time, and the beginning and the end are created together, I wonder why he created such a model? Why is something done even if it is God? Even God cannot escape his own rule.

Download or read book An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture written by Oleg Grabar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1985-06-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oleg Grabar, On Catalogues, Exhibitions, and Complete Works; Jonathan M. Bloom, The Mosque of the Qarafa in Cairo; Leonor Fernandes, The Foundation of Baybars al-Jashankir: Its Waqf, History, and Architecture; Howard Crane, Some Archaeological Notes on Turkish Sardis; Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, Siyah Qalem and Gong Kai: An Istanbul Album Painter and a Chinese Painter of the Mongolian Period; Do?gan Kuban, The Style of Sinan's Domed Structures; Yasser Tabbaa, Bronze Shapes in Iranian Ceramics of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries; Mehrdad Shokoohy and Natalie H. Shokoohy, The Architecture of Baha al-Din Tughrul in the Region of Bayana, Rajasthan; Glenn D. Lowry, Humayun's Tomb: Form, Function, and Meaning in Early Mughal Architecture; Peter Alford Andrews, The Generous Heart or the Mass of Clouds: The Court Tents of Shah Jahan; Priscilla P. Soucek, Persian Artists in Mughal India: Influences and Transformations; A.J. Lee, Islamic Star Patterns;

Download or read book Contested Conversions to Islam written by Tijana Krstić and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries. The Ottomans ruled over a large non-Muslim population and conversion to Islam was a contentious subject for all communities, especially Muslims themselves. Ottoman Muslim and Christian authors sought to define the boundaries and membership of their communities while promoting their own religious and political agendas. Tijana Krstić argues that the production and circulation of narratives about conversion to Islam was central to the articulation of Ottoman imperial identity and Sunni Muslim "orthodoxy" in the long 16th century. Placing the evolution of Ottoman attitudes toward conversion and converts in the broader context of Mediterranean-wide religious trends and the Ottoman rivalry with the Habsburgs and Safavids, Contested Conversions to Islam draws on a variety of sources, including first-person conversion narratives and Orthodox Christian neomartyologies, to reveal the interplay of individual, (inter)communal, local, and imperial initiatives that influenced the process of conversion.

Download or read book The Blind in History and Society Wisdom vs Despair written by Mehmet Emin Demirci and published by Mehmet Emin Demirci. This book was released on with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will examine all aspects of the relationship between the blind and the rest of society within the framework of the attitudes that represent a most productive area of social psychology. The reader will learn that historic figures did not consider their blindness a hindrance to their achievements, be they famous literary personalities or Nobel Prize Laureate. The lives of outstanding blind persons such as Democritus, al-Maarri, Dühring, Rodrigo, Dalén, Borges, Ostrovsky and even Ray Charles, will be examined while placing blindness and the blind at the center of social relationships, utilizing rich historical presentations and comprehensive analysis. This book will be of interest to many professionals, educators, historians, social scientists and general readers.

Download or read book The Birth of the Despot written by Lucette Valensi and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes toward the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Lucette Valensi follows the genealogy of the concept of Oriental despotism. The Birth of the Despot examines a crucial moment in the long and ambiguous encounter between the Christian and Islamic worlds: the period after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, when Venice's pursuit of its commercial and maritime interests brought two powerful protagonists—Venice and the Sublime Porte—face-to-face. Vivaldi's oratorio Juditha Triumphans, in which Judith liberates her besieged town by killing the Turk Holofernes, serves as the organizing metaphor in Valensi's study of how Venice's perceptions of its rival changed. Valensi shows how Venice's initial admiration for the sultan and his orderly empire metamorphosed into revulsion at a monstrous tyrant.

Download or read book The Ottomans written by Marc David Baer and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West. The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans’ multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe’s heart. Indeed, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. Recounting the Ottomans’ remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, historian Marc David Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage. The Ottomans pioneered religious toleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples. But in the nineteenth century, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the empire’s demise after the First World War. The Ottomans vividly reveals the dynasty’s full history and its enduring impact on Europe and the world.

Download or read book Caliphate Redefined written by Hüseyin Yılmaz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Ottomans refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authority The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750–1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed’s political authority. In this book, Hüseyin Yılmaz traces how a new conception of the caliphate emerged under the Ottomans, who redefined the caliph as at once a ruler, a spiritual guide, and a lawmaker corresponding to the prophet’s three natures. Challenging conventional narratives that portray the Ottoman caliphate as a fading relic of medieval Islamic law, Yılmaz offers a novel interpretation of authority, sovereignty, and imperial ideology by examining how Ottoman political discourse led to the mystification of Muslim political ideals and redefined the caliphate. He illuminates how Ottoman Sufis reimagined the caliphate as a manifestation and extension of cosmic divine governance. The Ottoman Empire arose in Western Anatolia and the Balkans, where charismatic Sufi leaders were perceived to be God’s deputies on earth. Yılmaz traces how Ottoman rulers, in alliance with an increasingly powerful Sufi establishment, continuously refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authority, and how the caliphate itself reemerged as a moral paradigm that shaped early modern Muslim empires. A masterful work of scholarship, Caliphate Redefined is the first comprehensive study of premodern Ottoman political thought to offer an extensive analysis of a wealth of previously unstudied texts in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish.

Download or read book Defining Corruption in the Ottoman Empire written by ?a? A. Ergene and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the premodern Ottomans understand public office corruption? To answer this question, Defining Corruption in the Ottoman Empire explores how Ottoman jurists, statesmen, political commentators, and others characterized this notion and what specific transgressions they associated with it before the nineteenth century. The book is based on extensive research and a wide variety of sources, including jurisprudential texts, imperial orders and communications, chronicles, and travel and diplomatic accounts. It identifies articulations of self-interested abuses of power by official and communal actors in these sources and illustrates how they resonate in some ways with modern perspectives. These premodern formulations, however, are shown to have collectively constituted a conceptual space that was contentious and temporally unstable, and no single overarching term was able to encapsulate all the specific misdeeds frequently linked to modern depictions of corruption. The book's genre-specific discursive survey is complemented by discussions that highlight, in the Ottoman context, the shifty boundaries that separated legitimate and illegitimate forms of revenue extraction; that examine the state's efforts to monitor and punish abuses by government officials; and that explore the context-dependent and often contested moralities of many acts, such as gift giving as bribery, office selling, and favoritism. It also considers the ways in which "corrupt" state actors might have rationalized their offenses. Defining Corruption is a conceptually driven work that is both comparative and interdisciplinary, engaging seriously with non-Ottoman historiographies, including broader Middle Eastern, European, and Chinese, and multiple disciplines besides history, in particular anthropology and economics, to provide a comprehensive analysis of premodern Ottoman perceptions of administrative abuse.

Download or read book Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting written by Lamia Balafrej and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the absence of a tradition of self-portraiture, how could artists signal their presence within a painting? Centred on late Timurid manuscript painting (ca. 1470-1500), this book reveals that pictures could function as the painter's delegate, charged with the task of centring and defining artistic work, even as they did not represent the artist's likeness. Influenced by the culture of the majlis, an institutional gathering devoted to intricate literary performances and debates, late Timurid painters used a number of strategies to shift manuscript painting from an illustrative device to a self-reflective object, designed to highlight the artist's imagination and manual dexterity. These strategies include visual abundance, linear precision, the incorporation of inscriptions addressing aspects of the painting and the artist's signature. Focusing on one of the most iconic manuscripts of the Persianate tradition, the Cairo Bustan made in late Timurid Herat and bearing the signatures of the painter Bihzad, this book explores Persian manuscript painting as a medium for artistic performance and self-representation, a process by which artistic authority was shaped and discussed.

Download or read book Traffic and Turning written by Jonathan Burton and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It will be of interest to all those interested in questions of early modern contact history, English relations with Islam and the East, English theater history, and cultural politics."--BOOK JACKET.