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Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse explores for the first time the extent to which the unusual religious diversity and tolerance of the Dutch Republic affected how its residents regarded Jews and Muslims. It is ideal for students of British and Dutch early-modern cultural, intellectual, and religious history.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Jews in England and the Netherlands, 1550-1620 – Anti-Semitism, Religious Polemics, and Realpolitique; 3. Christian Nonconformists and Jews, 1540-1650; 4. Muhammad: Christian Fantasies of the Prophet and the Qur’an; 5. Moors and Moriscos, 1550–1620; 6. Europeans and the Ottomans: Fantasy and Reality, 1610-1648; 7. Millenarian Dreams, Ecumenical Prophets, and the Lost Tribes Found, 1648-65; 8. The Sabbatai Zevi Experience: Jews, Christians, and Muslims, 1666-1700; 9. Conclusion
About the author
Gary K. Waite is a professor of early-modern European history at the University of New Brunswick. He has published widely on religion, drama, and culture in the Low Countries, on Anabaptism and spiritualism, witchcraft and demonology, and is currently preoccupied with seventeenth-century Dutch religious nonconformists and the early Enlightenment.
Summary
Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse explores for the first time the extent to which the unusual religious diversity and tolerance of the Dutch Republic affected how its residents regarded Jews and Muslims. It is ideal for students of British and Dutch early-modern cultural, intellectual, and religious history.
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'This insightful and original study offers an ambitious dual comparison, exploring attitudes to Jews and Muslims, in England and the Dutch Republic, during the seventeenth century. Approaching this topic from a wide range of angles – individual, diplomatic, commercial and theological – and making use of a rich and diverse corpus of primary sources, this book will be of great interest to scholars and teachers of early modern European history, religious studies, and the history of community relations and toleration.'
Adam Sutcliffe, King's College London, UK
