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Prisoner of the infidels : the memoirs of an Ottoman Muslim in seventeenth-century Europe / Osman of Timişoara; edited, translated, and introduced by Giancarlo Casale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Osman Ağa, active 1671-1725, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Gâvurların esiri. English
- Language:
- English
- Turkish
- Subjects (All):
- Austro-Turkish War, 1716-1718--Personal narratives, Turkish.
- Austro-Turkish War, 1716-1718.
- Prisoners of war--Romania--Timișoara--Biography.
- Prisoners of war.
- Prisoners of war--Turkey--Biography.
- Osman Ağa, active 1671-1725.
- Osman Ağa.
- Romania--Timișoara.
- Turkey.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives -- Turkish.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 199 pages : maps ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "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 comfort as a servant of one of Vienna's most elite aristocratic families. Decades later, as an old man in Istanbul, Osman would write an account of his experiences. A historical source of unparalleled richness, a swashbuckling adventure story, and a moving literary meditation on selfhood, bondage, and the impossibility of returning home, Prisoner of the Infidels is a foundational text for Ottoman cultural history. This major milestone of Turkish literature is finally available to English-speaking readers for the first time"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: on being Osman
- Discovering Osman: a short history of the text
- A note on translation
- A note on transcription from Ottoman Turkish
- Surrender
- Ransom
- Crime and punishment
- Death and resurrection
- Respite
- Bonds of love
- To the capital
- A friend in need
- An unexpected turn of events
- Trouble on the Danube
- Grifters
- Border run
- The end
- Appendix: main characters in Osman's narrative.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Osman Ağa, active 1671-1725. Prisoner of the infidels
- ISBN:
- 9780520383395
- 0520383397
- OCLC:
- 1226075996
- Publisher Number:
- 99988467149
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