Matthew Dimmock is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sussex. His work has focussed on Anglo-Islamic encounters in the early modern period and his publications include New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England (2005) and William Percy’s Mahomet and His Heaven: A Critical Edition (2006). His second monograph, Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad in Early Modern English Culture is currently in press with CUP.