The staging of Islam and The Alcoran of Mahomet in Charles Saunders's Tamerlane the Great and the Restoration politics

• Published in: The Seventeenth century Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 325 - 348
• Main Author: Alhawamdeh, Hussein A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Durham Routledge 04.03.2023; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: 17th century; Charles Saunders; Drama; Duke of Monmouth; Islam; Literary criticism; Quran; Restoration drama; Restoration period; Saunders, Charles Henry, 1818-1857; Tamerlane the Great; the Alcoran of Mahomet

Charles Saunders's Tamerlane the Great (1681) appropriates Islam and the Qur'an, first translated into English as The Alcoran of Mahomet in 1649, to attack the influence of the Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1683) on the Duke of Monmouth, the eldest Protestant son of Charles II. Saunders's...