Historian and award-winning author Jerry Brotton on Elizabethan England’s alliance with the Islamic world. Historical events have a way of overtaking a book. When This Orient Isle was published in March 2017, I hoped that it might enable some calmer reflection on the status of today’s British Muslim community by seeing it within a much longer […]
Reinterpreting the Fall of Granada
“At length they saw the silver cross, the great standard of this crusade, elevated on the Torre de