Suggested preparatory reading:
Alison Games, The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660 (2008), ch. 7; Simon Mills, ‘The Chaplains to the English Levant Company: Exploration and Biblical Scholarship in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England’, in Die Begegnung Mit Fremden Und Das Geschichtsbewusstsein, ed. Judith Becker (2012), 243-66; James Grehan, Twilight of the Saints: Everyday Religion in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (2014), Introduction.