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Mediterranean captivity through Arab eyes, 1517-1798
- Title
- Mediterranean captivity through Arab eyes, 1517-1798 / by Nabil Matar.
- Author
- Matar, N. I. (Nabil I.), 1949-
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- x, 293 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The post-Lepanto Mediterranean was the scene of "small wars," to use Fernand Braudel's phrase, which resulted in acts of piracy and captivity. Thousands upon thousands of Europeans and North African Arabs and Turks were seized into bagnios stretching from Cadiz to Valletta and from Salé to Tripoli. Europeans wrote extensively about their ordeals, and so did the North Africans and Levantines. In Mediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798, Nabil Matar examines the distinct Arabic narrative of captivity. Consulting archives from Tunis to London and from Fez to Paris, Valletta and Rome, Matar has collected, translated, and contextualized the anecdotes, recollections, reports, miracles, letters, fatawa, exempla and short accounts that cumulatively recount the Arabic qiṣṣas al-asrā, or stories of the captives, in the captives' native language and idiom"--
- Series Statement
- Islamic history and civilization, 0929-2403 ; volume 176
- Uniform Title
- Islamic history and civilization ; v. 176.
- Subject
- 1517-1882
- Slavery > Mediterranean Region > History
- Slavery > Africa, North > History
- Captivity narratives > Mediterranean Region > History
- Captivity narratives > Africa, North > History
- Piracy > Mediterranean Region > History
- Piracy > Africa, North > History
- Arabs > Mediterranean Region > History
- Arabs > Africa, North > History
- Arabs
- Captivity narratives
- Piracy
- Slavery
- Africa, North > History > 1517-1882
- Mediterranean Region
- North Africa
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-282) and indexes.
- Contents
- 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?
- Call Number
- JFE 22-3347
- ISBN
- 9789004440241
- 9004440240
- LCCN
- 2020035819
- 40030273983
- OCLC
- 1178905673
- Author
- Matar, N. I. (Nabil I.), 1949- author.
- Title
- Mediterranean captivity through Arab eyes, 1517-1798 / by Nabil Matar.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Islamic history and civilization, 0929-2403 ; volume 176Islamic history and civilization ; v. 176.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-282) and indexes.
- Chronological Term
- 1517-1882
- Other Form:
- Matar, N. I. (Nabil I.), 1949- Mediterranean captivity through Arab eyes, 1517-1798 Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020. 9789004440258 (DLC) 2020035820
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030273983
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-3347