The Harem, Slavery and British Imperial Culture : Anglo-Muslim Relations in the Late Nineteenth Century

Considers the antislavery campaign in terms of encounters with Islam during a period which marked a new departure in Anglo-Muslim relations Adds a critical but previously-neglected dimension to the study of Orientalism by analysing the complex relationship between representations of the Muslim harem and the implementation of imperial foreign policy in Egypt with respect to that institution Compares the widespread concern among contemporaries with eliminating prostitution in Victorian London with the simultaneous efforts to suppress white slavery in Egypt