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Title Washington Irving and Islam : critical essays / edited by Zubeda Jalalzai
Published New York, NY : Lexington Books, [2018]

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Contents Introduction: Washington Irving and Islam / Zubeda Jalalzai -- Spanish orientalism: Washington Irving and the romance of the Moors / Michael Stevens -- What pious Moslem writers tell us: Irving's filtering of his sources in Mahomet and his successors / Ray Lacina -- A Knickerbocker prophet: Washington irving's Americanization of Mahomet" / Doyle Quiggle -- Think local, act global: the development of Islam in Washington Irving's Mahomet and his successors / Jeffrey Scraba -- Irving's cadijah and women of power in Salmagundi and Mahomet / Tracy Hoffman -- Afterword: the seal and conclusion / Jeffrey Einboden
Summary This book examines Washington Irving's biography of the Prophet Muhammed and his other writings that engage Islamic history and the Muslim world. It explores the influence of Spain, Muslim and Christian legends, gender, and heroic biographies on Irving's writing and illustrates Irving's articulation of Orientalism and American nationalism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 -- Knowledge -- Islam
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. Mahomet and his successors
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
SUBJECT Mahomet and his successors (Irving, Washington) fast
Subject Islam in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Islam
Islam in literature
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Jalalzai, Zubeda, 1968- editor.
LC no. 2018020029
ISBN 9781498569675
1498569676