British travellers regarded all inhabitants of the
seventeenth-century Ottoman empire as 'slaves of the sultan', yet
they also made fine distinctions between them. This book provides
the first historical account of how British travellers understood
the non-Muslim peoples they encountered in Ottoman lands, and of
how they perceived and described them in the mediating shadow of
the Turks. In doing so it changes our perceptions of the European
encounter with the Ottomans by exploring the complex identities of
the subjects of the Ottoman empire in the English imagination,
de-centering the image of the 'Terrible Turk' and Islam.
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