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The article discusses the historical use of the term "Filastın/Palestine" in early modern Arabic sources between the Ottoman conquest in 1517 and the 1798 Napoleonic invasion. Topics include the anachronistic search for "Palestine" in early modern texts, the synecdochical naming of regions in Arabic geographical tradition, and the absence of distinct borders in the Ottoman territories.

This article examines the writings of John Gregory (d. 1646), who used the Qurʾān in resolving inter-denominational conflicts in the England of the 1640s. Living during the British Civil Wars, Gregory witnessed the assault on the Anglican Church by Presbyterians and Independents, on the one hand, and by Catholics, on the other. To defend the church of the via media in which he was ordained, Gregory took the unprecedented step of consulting the Qurʾān and the Arabic legacy, both Islamic and Christian, to find support for the theological and ecclesiastical positions of Anglicanism. He was an accomplished Arabist, and his unique treatment of the Qurʾān and of Islam influenced writers well into the eighteenth century, including Henry Stubbe (d. 1676) and Charles Hornby (d. 1739). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BLEVINS, Jacob, ed. Re-Reading Thomas Traherne: A Collection of New Critical Essays. Tempe: ACMRS, 2007. 226 pp. $39.00. BLEVINS, Jacob. An Annotated Bibliography of Thomas Traherne Criticism, 1900-2003. Lewiston: The [...]

Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World Reaktion, 1997; Cornell University Press, 1998 and The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 By Jerry [...]