Elizabethan England never conceived colonizing the Ottomans or Moors

Evidence

The attitude of Britons toward the Turks was one of “fear, anxiety, and awe.” Further, the idea of colonization was not applied to the Ottomans. Thus, Queen Elizabeth “cooperated commercially and diplomatically with both the Turks of the Ottoman Empire and the Moors of the Kingdom of Morocco, and never entertained or articulated—and nor did her subjects—projects for colonizing them.” In the seventeenth century, the British either embraced Ottoman civilization or vilified it. All along, however, there was a sense that the Turks were not outsiders. Certainly, they were not “outside the diplomatic scope of alliance and peace treaty, individual friendship and amicable correspondence—and even marriage.” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 113

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates any claim that imperial contempt for Muslims is transhistorical — the vault’s imperial-policy thesis (Aziz/Razack/Rana) gains force precisely because anti-Muslim hierarchy here is shown to be contingent on actual power relations. — connects to: Elizabethan maritime ventures failed in exploration and colonization endeavors — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 1331; Ottoman administrative knowledge of subject Christians never entered its literature — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 666; Seventeenth-century England did not yet racialize Muslims in official documents — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 140

Broader Connections

• Seventeenth-century England did not yet racialize Muslims in official documents #corroborates (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 140
• Elizabethan maritime ventures failed in exploration and colonization endeavors #expands (0.80) — John Sugden, Sir Francis Drake, 1331
• Ottoman administrative knowledge of subject Christians never entered its literature #exemplifies (0.72) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 666