Research Guides: HIST 333: Call Me Ishmael (HC): Selected Studies

Selected Art Studies

Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans: Mouradgea d'Ohsson and his masterpiece
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Written by Carter Vaughn Findley. Published in 2019.
Harems of the mind: passages of Western art and literature
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Written by Ruth Bernard Yeazell. Published in 2000.
Intimate outsiders: the harem in Ottoman and Orientalist art and travel literature
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Written by Mary Roberts. Published in 2007. Also available as print copies in Tripod.
A journey into the world of the Ottomans: the art of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737)
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Written by Olʹga Nefedova-Gruntova. Published in 2009.
The lure of the East: British Orientalist painting
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Written by Nicholas Tromans and rana Kabbani. Published in 2008.
Ottoman dress and design in the West: a visual history of cultural exchange
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Written by Charlotte Jirousek. Published in 2019.
Turquerie: an eighteenth-century European fantasy
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Written by Haydn Williams. Published in 2014.

Selected Historical Studies

African Muslims in antebellum America: transatlantic stories and spiritual struggles
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By Allan Austin. Published originally in 1984. Revised and updated in 1997.
American slaves and African masters : Algiers and the Western Sahara, 1776-1820
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By Christine Sears. Published in 2012
Black crescent : the experience and legacy of African Muslims in the Americas
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Written by Michael Gomez. Published in 2005.
Captives and countrymen: Barbary slavery and the American public, 1785-1816
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Written by Lawrence Peskin. Published in 2009.
Contesting Islam, constructing race and sexuality: the inordinate desire of the West
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Written by Sunera Thobani. Published in 2021.
The crescent obscured : the United States and the Muslim world, 1776-1815
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Written by Robert Allison. Published in 1995.
From captives to consuls: three sailors in Barbary and their self-making across the Early American Republic, 1770-1840
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Written by Brett Goodin. Published in 2020.
The Greek fire : American-Ottoman relations and democratic fervor in the age of revolutions
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By Maureen Connors Santelli. Published in 2020.
I Cannot Write My Life : Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America
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Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst make new and accurate translations of Omar Ibn Said's and other Arabic writings. They provide a context for his life and a broader understanding of his engagement with Islam. Published in 2023.
Jefferson's Muslim fugitives: the lost story of enslaved Africans, their Arabic letters, and an American president
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Written by Jeffery Einboden. Published in 2020.
Prisoners of the Bashaw: The Nineteen-Month Captivity of American Sailors in Tripoli, 1803–1805
Written by Frederick Leiner. Published in 2022. On order for Haverford College.
Servants of Allah: African Muslims enslaved in the Americas
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By Sylviane Diouf. Written originally in 1998 and revised in 2013.
Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the founders
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Written by Denise Spellberg. Published in 2013.
Unveiling the harem: elite women and the paradox of seclusion in eighteenth-century Cairo
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By Mary Ann Fay. Published in 2012.

Selected Literary Studies

American arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the 19th-century imaginary
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Written by Jacob Rama Berman. Published in 2012.
Early American women critics: performance, religion, race
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Written by Gay Gibson Cima. Published in 2006. See the author's discussion of Susanna Rowson's Slaves in Algiers, pages 178-193.
Emerson in Iran: the American appropriation of Persian poetry
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Written by Roger Sedarat. Published in 2019.
Enlightenment Orientalism in the American Mind, 1770-1807
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Written by Matthew Pangborn. Published in 2020.
Intelligent souls?: feminist orientalism in eighteenth-century English literature
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Written by Samara Cahill. Published in 2019.
The Islamic lineage of American literary culture: Muslim sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction
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Written by Jeffrey Einboden. Published in 2016.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Written by Isobel Grundy. Published in 1999.
New Turkes: dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in early modern England
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Written by Matthew Dimmock. Published in 2005.
U.S. orientalisms: race, nation, and gender in literature, 1790-1890
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Written by Malini Johar Schueller. Published in 1998.

Selected Religious Studies

American apostles: when evangelicals entered the world of Islam
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By Christine Heyrman. Published in 2016.
American Christians and Islam: evangelical culture and Muslims from the colonial period to the age of terrorism
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Written by Thomas Kidd. Published in 2009.
American missionaries and the Middle East: foundational encounters
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Edited by Mehmet Dogan and Heather Sharkey. Published in 2011.
Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
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By Ussama Makdisi. Published in 2008
A history of Islam in America: from the new world to the new world order
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By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri. Published in 2010.