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Author : Nabil Matar
Release : 2023
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Book Synopsis Vol. 18: Arabic Accounts of Mediterranean Captivity, 1517-1798 by : Nabil Matar
Download or read book Vol. 18: Arabic Accounts of Mediterranean Captivity, 1517-1798 written by Nabil Matar. This book was released on 2023. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nabil Matar
Release : 2020-11-04
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Mediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798 by : Nabil Matar
Download or read book Mediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798 written by Nabil Matar. This book was released on 2020-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798 is the first book that examines the Arabic captivity narratives in the early modern period. Based on Arabic sources in archives stretching from Amman to Fez to London and Rome, Matar presents the story of captivity from the perspective of the Arabic-speaking captives who have not been examined in the growing field of captivity studies.
Author : Mario Klarer
Release : 2022-03-11
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Barbary Captives by : Mario Klarer
Download or read book Barbary Captives written by Mario Klarer. This book was released on 2022-03-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, pirates from Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco not only attacked sailors and merchants in the Mediterranean but also roved as far as Iceland. A substantial number of the European captives who later returned home from the Barbary Coast, as maritime North Africa was then called, wrote and published accounts of their experiences. These popular narratives greatly influenced the development of the modern novel and autobiography, and they also shaped European perceptions of slavery as well as of the Muslim world. Barbary Captives brings together a selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation for the first time. It features accounts written by men and women across three centuries and in nine different languages that recount the experience of capture and servitude in North Africa. These texts tell the stories of Christian pirates, Christian rowers on Muslim galleys, house slaves in the palaces of rulers, domestic servants, agricultural slaves, renegades, and social climbers in captivity. They also depict liberation through ransom, escape, or religious conversion. This book sheds new light on the social history of Mediterranean slavery and piracy, early modern concepts of unfree labor, and the evolution of the Barbary captivity narrative as a literary and historical genre.
Author : Cristelle L. Baskins
Release : 2022-11-24
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Hafsids and Habsburgs in the Early Modern Mediterranean by : Cristelle L. Baskins
Download or read book Hafsids and Habsburgs in the Early Modern Mediterranean written by Cristelle L. Baskins. This book was released on 2022-11-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores an anonymous sixteenth-century portrait of Muley al-Hassan, the Hafsid king of Tunis (ca. 1528–1550), that bears witness to relations between North Africa, the Habsburgs, and the Ottomans. While Muley al-Hassan appears frequently in the vast literature on Charles V Habsburg, he is overshadowed by the emperor. Here he emerges as a protagonist, a figure whose shifting reputation can be traced well into the seventeenth century. Images of the King of Tunis circulated in broadsheets, ephemeral images made for triumphal entries, manuscripts, tapestry designs, engravings, and books. The ceaseless production of Tunisian imagery allowed Europeans to face their North African counterparts through scenes of battle but also through imaginary encounters and festive cross-dressing. This book shows how portraits of Hafsid rulers challenge assumptions about the absolute divide between Christian and Muslim, sovereign and subject, the familiar and the foreign, and they put a face on the entangled histories of the early modern Mediterranean.
Author : Nabil I. Matar
Release : 2020-11-05
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Mediterranean Captivity Through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798 by : Nabil I. Matar
Download or read book Mediterranean Captivity Through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798 written by Nabil I. Matar. This book was released on 2020-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Mediterranean Captivities -- Qiṣaṣ al-Asrā, or Stories of the Captives -- Letters -- Divine Intervention: Christian and Islamic -- Conversion and Resistance -- Ransom and Return -- Captivity of Books -- Epilogue: Esclaves turcs in Sculpture -- Postscript: How Should the Sculptures Be Treated?
