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Old February 4th, 2016 #1
Karl Radl
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Default The Diary of Thomas Dallam on the Jews in Islamic Lands

The Diary of Thomas Dallam on the Jews in Islamic Lands


The Diary of Thomas Dallam recounts the voyage of a diplomatic expedition from Elizabeth I to Sultan Muhammed III in 1599 in order to secure better trading links. The author, one Thomas Dallam, was a master organ maker and had been dispatched by Elizabeth I to Constantinople with a specially crafted sixteen-foot-high mechanical organ as a present for the Ottoman Sultan. (1)

As such his testimony is one of a few primary sources we have from Europeans who visited the Ottoman Empire at its height and had direct interaction with the Sultan and his court, while also making their observations about the ordinary Muslims in their own lands. In addition to this Dallam also observes things about the jews in the Islamic world, which many a philo-Semitic author would like to sweep under the rug.

In Algiers, one of the principal cities of the Barbary corsairs, Dallam noted that there were a great many jews as well as Muslims there. (2) This is important considering that Dallam also notes that the residents of Algiers were prolific slave traders of captured Christians (mainly of Spanish and Italian origin). (3) This is especially notable when you consider that we know from Islamic sources that jews dominated the white slave trade in the Islamic world from a very early period. (4)

It is therefore reasonable to assert that there was a link between Algiers status as a major centre for slave trading and the concentration of jews there.

The presence of so great a concentration of jews in the city was likely because Algiers was one of the principal bases/trading ports of the Barbary corsairs (who Dallam considers, like all Muslims, to be inveterate savages) and therefore a major entry point for fresh cargos of slaves produced by the piratical depredations of the corsair crews in residence.

Dallam similarly notes large populations of jews in Greek towns such as Lippanta (5) [= Lepanto] and tells us that while he and other Englishman knew of one ‘honest jew’ (who seems to have liked Englishmen for some reason or another). (6) Jews in general were a vile people as shown by the fact that he comments that Jonas Aldredge, the English consul, had had to travel forty miles inland in order just to get a jewish criminal hanged. (7)

While in another instance a jew screamed abuse against Jesus Christ and Christianity to one Master Cunisbe – a member of Dallem’s diplomatic party – in the street and Cunisbe had to be promptly restrained to prevent him from cutting off the head of said jew then and there. (8)

This is hardly the sort of jewish behaviour that philo-Semitic authors tell of in their works: is it?

That is because the truth about jewish history is simply that the jewish people in the Islamic world were a mix of unscrupulous slave traders, Christian-hating religious zealots and willing agents of the various Islamic rulers and dynasties.

The jewish people weren’t victims of Islamic oppression: they were the willing agents and servants of the Islamic leadership against Christian Europe.


References


(1) Lawrence Danson, 2009, ‘The Sultan’s Organ: presents and self-presentation in Thomas Dallam’s Diary’, Renaissance Studies, Vol. 23, No. 5, p. 639
(2) James Theodore Bent, 1893, ‘Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant’, 1st Edition, Hakluyt Society: London, p. 14
(3) Ibid.
(4) Cf. http://semiticcontroversies.blogspot...ave-trade.html
(5) Bent, Op. Cit., p. 85
(6) Ibid, p. 86
(7) Ibid.
(8) Ibid.

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This was originally published at the following address: http://www.semiticcontroversies.blog...n-jews-in.html
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Old February 4th, 2016 #2
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