Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse explores for the first time the extent to which the unusual religious diversity and tolerance of the Dutch Republic affected how its residents regarded Jews and Muslims. It is ideal for students of British and Dutch early-modern cultural, intellectual, and religious history.

Gary K. Waite is a professor of early-modern European history at the University of New Brunswick. He has published widely on religion, drama, and culture in the Low Countries, on Anabaptism and spiritualism, witchcraft and demonology, and is currently preoccupied with seventeenth-century Dutch religious nonconformists and the early Enlightenment.

1. Introduction; 2. Jews in England and the Netherlands, 1550-1620 - Anti-Semitism, Religious Polemics, and Realpolitique; 3. Christian Nonconformists and Jews, 1540-1650; 4. Muhammad: Christian Fantasies of the Prophet and the Qur'an; 5. Moors and Moriscos, 1550-1620; 6. Europeans and the Ottomans: Fantasy and Reality, 1610-1648; 7. Millenarian Dreams, Ecumenical Prophets, and the Lost Tribes Found, 1648-65; 8. The Sabbatai Zevi Experience: Jews, Christians, and Muslims, 1666-1700; 9. Conclusion