Bucknell University Press Intelligent souls?: feminist orientalism in eighteenth-century english literature, paperback/samara anne cahill

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Description Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain.

Samara A.

Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the phenomenon of feminist orientalism.

One strand describes seventeenth-century ideas about the nature of the soul used to denigrate religio-political opponents.

A second strand tracks the transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution and the Trinitarian .