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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Brotton, Jerry.     Subjects     Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.     Murad III, Sultan of the Turks, 1546-1595.     East and West -- History -- 16th century.     Cultural relations -- History -- 16th century.     British -- Islamic countries -- History -- 16th century.     Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603.     Turkey -- History -- Murad III, 1574-1595.     Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Turkey.     Turkey -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.     England -- Relations -- Islamic countries.     Islamic countries -- Relations -- England.     Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1558-1603.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brotton, Jerry.       by title:      The sultan and the q...       by call number:      303.48242 B874s     Search the Web     Brotton, Jerry.     Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.     Murad III, Sultan of the Turks, 1546-1595.     East and West -- History -- 16th century.     Cultural relations -- History -- 16th century.     British -- Islamic countries -- History -- 16th century.     Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603.     Turkey -- History -- Murad III, 1574-1595.     Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Turkey.     Turkey -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.     England -- Relations -- Islamic countries.     Islamic countries -- Relations -- England.     Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1558-1603.       MARC Display

The sultan and the queen : the untold story of Elizabeth and Islam / Jerry Brotton. by Brotton, Jerry. Viking, 2016. Call #: 303.48242 B874s Subjects Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.   Murad III, Sultan of the Turks, 1546-1595.   East and West -- History -- 16th century.   Cultural relations -- History -- 16th century.   British -- Islamic countries -- History -- 16th century.   Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603.   Turkey -- History -- Murad III, 1574-1595.   Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Turkey.   Turkey -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.   England -- Relations -- Islamic countries.   Islamic countries -- Relations -- England.   Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1558-1603. ISBN:  9780525428824 (hc.) Description:  338 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm. Notes:  First published in Great Britain as: This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (London : Allen Lane, 2016.) Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Conquering Tunis -- The sultan, the tsar and the shah -- The Battle for Barbary -- An apt man in Constantinople -- Unholy alliances -- Sultana Isabel -- London turns Turk -- Mahomet's dove -- Escape from the Seraglio -- Sherley fever -- More than a Moor -- Epilogue. Summary:  Long before Thomas Jefferson confronted the Barbary Pirates, Queen Elizabeth sent a secret message to the Ottoman Sultan Murad II, inviting him to open his markets to her merchants and to embark on a pathbreaking new alliance. Islam and the West crossed paths much earlier than we think, and originally the Muslims had the upper hand. When Elizabeth was excommunicated by the pope in 1570, she found herself in an awkward predicament. England had always depended on trade. Now its key markets were suddenly closed to her Protestant merchants, while the staunchly Catholic king of Spain vowed to take her throne. In a bold decision with far-reaching consequences, she set her sights on the East. She sent an emissary to the shah of Iran, wooed the king of Morocco, and entered into an unprecedented alliance with the powerful Ottoman Sultan Murad III. This marked the beginning of an extraordinary alignment with Muslim powers and of economic and political exchanges with the Islamic world of a depth not again experienced until the modern age. By the late 1580s, thousands of English merchants, diplomats, sailors, and privateers were plying their trade from Morocco to Persia. To finance these expeditions, they created the first ever joint stock company, a revolutionary new business model that balanced risk and reward. Londoners were gripped with a passion for the Orient. Elizabeth became hooked on sugar as new words like candy, turquoise, and tulip entered the English language. Marlowe offered up Tamburlaine and Shakespeare wrote Othello six months after the first Moroccan ambassador's visit. The riveting story of the traders and adventurers who first went East to seek their fortunes. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 303.48242 B874s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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