Prisoner of the infidels : the memoirs of an Ottoman Muslim in seventeenth-century Europe /

"In 1688, five years after the failed Ottoman siege of Vienna, a young Muslim soldier surrendered to the Austrian army and became a prisoner of war. Osman of Timişoara would spend the next twelve years in captivity, at first under the cruelest and most inhuman conditions, and later in relative...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Osman Ağa, active 1671-1725 (Author)
Other Authors: Casale, Giancarlo (Editor, Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Turkish
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Osman Ağa, > active 1671-1725.
1716-1718
Austro-Turkish War, 1716-1718 > Personal narratives, Turkish.
Prisoners of war > Romania > Timișoara > Biography.
Prisoners of war > Turkey > Biography.
Prisonniers de guerre > Roumanie > Timișoara > Biographies.
HISTORY / World
Prisoners of war.
Romania > Timișoara.
Turkey.
Biographies.
Personal narratives > Turkish.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • A note on transcription from Ottoman Turkish
  • A note on translation
  • Introduction: on being Osman
  • Surrender
  • Ransom
  • Crime and punishment
  • Death and resurrection
  • Respite
  • Bonds of love
  • To the capital
  • A friend in need
  • An unexpected turn of events
  • Into the lion's den
  • Grifters
  • To the border-- The end
  • Appendix: main characters in Osman's narrative
  • Notes
  • Index of people
  • Index of places.

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