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Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe

by Osman of Timisoara and Edited by Giancarlo Casale

A pioneering work of Ottoman Turkish literature, Prisoner of the Infidels brings the seventeenth-century memoir of Osman Agha of Timişoara—slave, adventurer, and diplomat—into English for the first time. The sweeping story of Osman’s life begins upon his capture and subsequent enslavement during the Ottoman–Habsburg Wars. Adrift in a landscape far from his h

Publisher

University of California Press

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780520383395