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| Created | 2018-07-03 | ||||
| Owner | zw1100 | ||||
| Title | The Secret History of Elizabeth I's Alliance With Islam | ||||
| Description | Elizabeth I was in the bind. She had been excommunicated with the Pope, and her country was shunned because of the rest of Europe. To avoid ruin, England needed allies. The queen sought aid from a surprising source: the Islamic world. The Tudor period has supplied endless popular entertainments—from Cate Blanchett’s Elizabeth movies on the television series The Tudors—but this story has rarely been told. Jerry Brotton explores the forgotten good English-Muslim alliances in their new book The Sultan and also the Queen. Speaking from his home in Oxford, England, Brotton explains why Elizabeth believed Islam and Protestantism had more that resembles each other as compared to Catholicism and exactly how this cultural exchange could have inspired Shakespeare’s plays and turned the queen’s teeth black. From Donald Trump to Brexit supporters, many Westerners view Muslims like a threat and would like to close the borders. But 500 years ago, Queen Elizabeth I made alliances together with the Shah of Iran as well as the Ottoman Sultan. What can Elizabeth I’s relations while using Islamic world teach us? A lot. They can teach us that there’s a sort of pragmatic exchange and toleration and accommodation, which trumps ideology. One of the key stories inside the book may be the issue of trade and also the way trade collides with religions. The reason Queen Elizabeth develops this relationship while using Islamic world is theology initially. She’s establishing a Protestant state and England has changed into a pariah in Catholic Europe. So she reaches out for alliances with all the Islamic world. What flows from that's an exchange of trade and goods, in spite of sectarian and theological differences. Elizabeth just isn't reaching out to Sultan Murad III because she’s a great person and wants religious accord. She is doing the work for hard-nosed political and https://www.mmoah.com/aura-kingdom | ||||
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