But aren’t there? Othello being a convert to Christianity, but he curses his conversion, and what about one of the suitors to Portia?
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Haha yes Morocco is our only one. That’s the point of my book though, the Islamic shadow text that runs parallel to the accepted narrative.
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First English translation of the Quran is late 1640’s I think. So much after his death, are you saying because no actual text references? Only because obvious implied about Morocco in Merchant and Othello, perhaps Aaron in Titus
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There are textual references to Turks and Moors and to Arabia, Persia, and India, but one character who is identifiably Muslim by his geography.
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Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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That’s the spirit.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Are you excluding Jews? I ask because Jews/Moors/Orientals
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Great question. I will definitely be thinking about how these identities are mingling in the construction of the orient. I was just reading about how “Turkish noses,” are represented as “Semitic” in the period. So much taxonomizing to create difference.
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