Dr Charles Beirouti
Member, MEMOs
Charlie Beirouti is a researcher within the TV industry, currently employed by Wall to Wall Media, and working on the BBC One series Who Do You Think You Are? Charlie has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford. His thesis centred on the depiction of religious diversity in seventeenth-century English travelogues, specifically those written by Church of England clerics who lived, worked and travelled within the Mughal and Ottoman empires.
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‘[B]eyond the ordinary Opinion of the World’: George Wheler and the Ottomans’ Intellectual Culture
Wheler’s account of his conversation with Watson defied English pre-conceptions about the state of Ottoman knowledge
14 February 2022
‘Like the Miss-Led Papists’: Anti-Catholicism and Early Modern English Views of Islam
English Protestants frequently viewed Islam through the lens of anti-Catholicism
19 April 2021
A Backpacker in the Age of Shakespeare: Thomas Coryate at the Court of the Mughal Emperor
His travels were unusual insofar as they were motivated primarily by curiosity and a sense of wanderlust, as well as by a desire for personal celebrity
24 January 2021
Sir Thomas Herbert's 'Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique', 1627-30
Through writers like Herbert, however, we can detect the emergence of more complex and variegated English understandings of Islam
5 October 2020
‘To love thy one true God, and Countrey best’: Edward Terry’s ‘Voyage to East-India’ (1655)
For Terry, the discovery of a new world, however seemingly alien, was a powerful means – with the grace of God – to better understand his own.
10 August 2020