ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses several writers who lived in Britain but whose liminal identities gave them a different perspective from that which dominated in London. Their Jewish, Scottish, or Irish identities and desire to preserve these convinced them that a nation or an Empire could be home to different cultural traditions while still commanding loyalty from all of them if civil rights – including freedom of cultural and religious expression (which logically includes Islam) – are protected. In writing about Muslims, they resisted polarizing good Christian and bad Muslim and could admire aspects of Islam's cultural legacy which others dismissed as flimsy or even as offering nothing of value.
