{"id":13995,"date":"2025-04-16T14:07:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/?p=13995"},"modified":"2025-04-16T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:08:11","slug":"dadabhoys-book-recognized-by-shakespeare-association-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2025\/04\/16\/dadabhoys-book-recognized-by-shakespeare-association-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Dadabhoy&#8217;s Book Recognized by Shakespeare Association of America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds, <\/em>the book by Ambereen Dadabhoy, associate professor of literature at Harvey Mudd College, received an Honorable Mention for the Shakespeare Association of America&#8217;s Jerome Singerman First Book Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her book, Dadabhoy investigates why Shakespeare doesn\u2019t write about Islam. \u201cIn\u00a0<em>The Merchant of Venice, <\/em>the Prince of Morocco is never identified as a Muslim,\u201d she says. \u201cHowever, if he\u2019s the Prince of Morocco, he can\u00a0only\u00a0be a Muslim. There\u2019s no other option.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shakespeare\u2019s work clearly contains Islamic characters and influences. Dadabhoy describes how Shakespeare removes Muslims or makes them peripheral or referential because he\u2019s creating a Europe and a \u2018globe\u2019 that is free from Islam, racial otherness, and religious otherness. By consigning the diverse cultures of the Islamic regimes that occupied and populated the early modern Mediterranean to the peripheries, Shakespeare constructs a Europe and Mediterranean freed from the presence of non-white, non-European and non-Christian Others, which belied the reality of the world he occupied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dadabhoy hopes the book will encourage readers to consider that even if something isn\u2019t explicit, it\u2019s still worth searching for traces of it. \u201cThe book is very much a project where I\u2019m trying to put Muslims back in the places from which they were evacuated by Shakespeare,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds, the book by Ambereen Dadabhoy, associate professor of literature at Harvey Mudd College, received an Honorable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":12567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14,967,19],"class_list":["post-13995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-award","category-faculty","category-general-feed","category-hsa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13997,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13995\/revisions\/13997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}