© Columbia University Press
Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery
Paper, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11015-0
$26.50
/ £15.50
June, 1999
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11014-3
$83.50
/ £49.00
"An interesting study of cultural contact between the English and the Moors and Turks of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and how this contact influenced subsequent English interactions with native peoples of the New World." — Library Journal
"An important but neglected topic. Matar has done early modern scholarship an important service." — Sixteenth Century Journal
"Worth [its] weight in gold. . . . Matar’s work adds to the discourse of both orientalism and post-colonialism by providing essential detailed historical analysis of primary sources. . . . Extremely informative and enlightening." — The Muslim World Book Review
"A valuable contribution to the study of the rise of Orientalism and colonialism. . . perceptive and elegantly written." — Arab Studies Journal
"Matar's work is full of surprises for anyone who believes that Christian-Muslim relations have always been confrontational." — William Dalrymple, New York Review of Books
"An exceptionally detailed account of the elaborate network of commercial, diplomatic, military contacts between Britons and Muslims in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Matar taps a rich vein of anecdotal material to make this history vivid and particular. This book will become required reading for anyone interested in the origins of empire, and in the associated discourses of commerce, colonisation, and race." — Michael Neill, University of Auckland