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Author Osman Ağa, active 1671-1725, author.

Title Prisoner of the infidels : the memoirs of an Ottoman Muslim in seventeenth-century Europe / Osman of Timişoara ; edited, translated, and introduced by Giancarlo Casale
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : maps
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
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
Notes Translated from the Turkish
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2021)
Subject Osman Ağa, active 1671-1725.
SUBJECT Osman Ağa, active 1671-1725 fast
Subject Austro-Turkish War, 1716-1718 -- Personal narratives, Turkish
Prisoners of war -- Romania -- Timișoara -- Biography
Prisoners of war -- Turkey -- Biography
HISTORY / World
Prisoners of war
Romania -- Timișoara
Turkey
Genre/Form Biographies
Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
Author Casale, Giancarlo, editor, translator, writer of introduction.
LC no. 2020053129
ISBN 9780520383401
0520383400
Other Titles Gâvurların esiri. English