The harem, slavery and British imperial culture: Anglo-Muslim relations in the late nineteenth centuryManchester University Press, 2017 M03 1 - 240 pages This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late-nineteenth century. It considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, and examines the ways in which the assumptions and dominant imperialist discourses of these abolitionists were challenged by the newly-established Muslim communities in England, as well as by English people who converted to or were sympathetic with Islam. While previous scholars have treated antislavery activity in Egypt first and foremost as an extension of earlier efforts to abolish plantation slavery in the New World, this book considers it in terms of encounters with Islam during a period which it argues marked a new departure in Anglo-Muslim relations. This approach illuminates the role of Islam in the creation of English national identities within the global cultural system of the British Empire. |
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... period when the British Government was beginning to assert itself in proximity to the centres of power in the Islamic world by occupying Egypt and attempting to reform that country, Muslims were establishing communities in England and ...
... period. Since a high proportion of Egyptian slaves were women, questions of their manumission became extensively connected with both conservative and liberal discourses of femininity in Britain. Moreover, the relationships between ...
... period that marks a new departure in Anglo-Muslim relations in the context of the British Empire, both in England and abroad, shifting the ground on which British identity politics operated. While the fluid and changing nature of the ...
... period in the development of Anglo-Muslim relations in the context of the vast network of relationships which comprised the global cultural system known as the British Empire. The practice of understanding the West and Western ...
... period when that religion first was defined both as beyond the pale of true Englishness while nevertheless having a legitimate place in England as the centre of the Empire. The Muslims who lived in England, the focus of chapter five ...
Contents
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English activism and slavery redefined | 70 |
imperial ideology in English gender politics | 115 |
Islam in England | 154 |
Conclusion | 197 |
Appendices | 210 |
Select bibliography | 213 |
Index | 220 |
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The Harem, Slavery and British Imperial Culture: Anglo-Muslim Relations in ... Diane Robinson-Dunn No preview available - 2014 |