Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare’s corpus. While many of Shakespeare’s plays were set in the Mediterranean, a geography occupied by Muslim empires and cultures, his work eschews direct engagement with the religion and its people.
Ambereen Dadabhoy is Associate Professor of Literature at Harvey Mudd College, USA. She is the coauthor of Anti-Racist Shakespeare (with Nedda Mehdizadeh, 2023) and several articles on race and religion in Shakespeare and the early modern English literature.