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Islam in Britain, 1689–1750

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Nabil Matar
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 284 - 300
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8 For further studies on toleration of Muslims and Jews, see Matar, Nabil, “John Locke and the ‘Turbanned Nations,'” Journal of Islamic Studies 2, no. 1 (1991): 67–77CrossRefGoogle Scholar, “John Locke and the Jews,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 44, no. 1 (1993): 45–62.

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13 As Statt observes, “Denization was therefore the only alternative for Jewish immigrants” (ibid., 34).

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35 Letter from Consul Methuen to Sir Charles Hedges, 19 February 1706, TNA: PRO, SP 89/19/15r. See also an earlier letter about the provisioning of Gibraltar from Morocco: Jezreel Jones to Sir Charles Hedges, June/July 1705, TNA: PRO, SP 71/15/132.

36 Letter from Garven Nash to John Milner, September 1706, TNA: PRO, SP 71/15/197.

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47 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 17 June 1717, in Letters from the Levant during the Embassy to Constantinople, 1716–1718, ed. J. A. St. John (1838; repr., London, 1971), 189. As Percy G. Adams stated, the period between 1660 and 1800 was the age of lying (Travelers and Travel Liars, 1660–1800 [Berkeley, 1962], 10).

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51 Morgan, “Some Remarks,” in Mahometism Explained, xvi. Also see ibid., xvii–xviii: “It is a general Notion in your Parts of the World, That a Mussulman's Wife is no better than his Domestick, or Slave. She is neither reckon’d in the Number of the one, nor of the other; yet, she is not his Equal, nor does she ever aim at being so: Yet, I will tell you what she will do, All Slave, Domestick, Inferior, Ignorant, as you term her, and which is enough to make a Number of your so much politer European Wives blush. Can you pretend, that you do not know, That our Submissive, No-spirited, Senseless, Illiterate HandMaids, as they are called among you, will see the very best of us hanged, before they will offer to stir from their Place, where they are sitting, when we come into the House from Abroad, or so much as look toward us, though we have been absent several Days, Weeks, or even Months, except we first advance towards them; and this Prerogative of the Sex, with a beautiful Haughtiness, they positively maintain; nor will any of them be persuaded, by Threat of Argument, to recede from it one Hair's Breadth, till after having had several Children, or having cohabited with the Man for many Years.”

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57 Ibid., viii.

58 Morgan, A Compleat History of the Piratical States, 265.

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61 Morgan, A Compleat History of the Piratical States, 269.

62 Ibid., 264.

63 Ibid., 267.

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