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redneck_penguinNow here is some interesting triviata from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_England
One, Lundy, of the Channel Islands was occupied by Barbary Pirates from around to 1575 until the mid-1600s. I know that the pirates probably weren't interested in spreading their religion but the fact that they were there is intriguing.
"Professor John Makdisi's "The Islamic Origins of the Common Law" in the North Carolina Law Review, curiously suggested that English common law was inspired by medieval Islamic law." The paragraph goes on to suggest the similarities between the madrassahs of the Muslim world and the Ins of Court in England. Then the article says that the Muslim influence came "by the Normans, 'through the close connection between the Norman kingdoms of Roger II in Sicily — ruling over a conquered Islamic administration — and Henry II in England.'"
"The Muslim Moors had a noticeable influence on the works of George Peele and William Shakespeare. Some of their works featured Moorish characters, such as Peele's The Battle of Alcazar and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus and Othello, which featured a Moorish Othello as its title character. These works are said to have been inspired by several Moorish delegations from Morocco to Elizabethan England around 1600.[25] A portrait was painted of one of the Moorish ambassadors, Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun, who had come to promote an Anglo-Moroccan alliance."
One, Lundy, of the Channel Islands was occupied by Barbary Pirates from around to 1575 until the mid-1600s. I know that the pirates probably weren't interested in spreading their religion but the fact that they were there is intriguing.
"Professor John Makdisi's "The Islamic Origins of the Common Law" in the North Carolina Law Review, curiously suggested that English common law was inspired by medieval Islamic law." The paragraph goes on to suggest the similarities between the madrassahs of the Muslim world and the Ins of Court in England. Then the article says that the Muslim influence came "by the Normans, 'through the close connection between the Norman kingdoms of Roger II in Sicily — ruling over a conquered Islamic administration — and Henry II in England.'"
"The Muslim Moors had a noticeable influence on the works of George Peele and William Shakespeare. Some of their works featured Moorish characters, such as Peele's The Battle of Alcazar and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus and Othello, which featured a Moorish Othello as its title character. These works are said to have been inspired by several Moorish delegations from Morocco to Elizabethan England around 1600.[25] A portrait was painted of one of the Moorish ambassadors, Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun, who had come to promote an Anglo-Moroccan alliance."
