Introduction: rethinking Islam in the eighteenth century
"A true protestant Mahometan": Henry Stubbe, Ottoman Hungary, and the siege of Vienna
Letters from a female deist: Lady Mary Wortley, muslim women, and freethinking feminism
In defense of the ancient Mughal constitution: Edmund Burke, India and the Warren Hastings trial
Hermetic Egypt, Ali Bonaparte, and the colonial politics of Walter Savage Landor's Gebir
"The flight and return of Mohammed": plotting Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and Robert Southey's unitarian epic
A last woman's eschatology: the avenging Turks in Mary Shelley's The last man
Epilogue: postcolonial reflections.