Mediterranean Captivity Through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798
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 Arab...
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Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2020
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In: | Year: 2020 |
Series/Journal: | Islamic History and Civilization Ser.
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Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
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Summary: | 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. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue. 21 June 2019 -- Introduction. Mediterranean Captivities -- 1. Writing Captivity in Arabic -- 2. Between the Lands of the Christians and the Lands of Islam, Bilād al-Naṣārā and Bilād al-Islām -- Chapter 1. Qiṣaṣ al-Asrā, or Stories of the Captives -- 1. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Qaysī (fl. 1485) -- 2. Aḥmad ibn al-Qāḍī (1553-1616) -- 3. Aḥmad Bābā al-Tinbaktī (1556-1627) -- 4. Taʿlīqāt Muṣṭafā ibn Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Karāma (9 July 1606) -- 5. Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭayyib al-Tafilātī al-Mālikī (al-Ḥanafī al-Maghribī) -- 6. Sayyid ʿAlī ibn al-Sayyid Aḥmad (1713) -- 7. Faṭma, 1798 -- 8. Ibrāhīm Librīs, 1802 -- 9. Conclusion -- Chapter 2. Letters -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Divine Intervention: Christian and Islamic -- 1. Christian -- 2. Muslim -- 2.1. ʿĀisha bint [daughter of] Aḥmad al-Idrīsiyya -- 2.2. ʿAlī Ḥmamūsh -- 2.3. Abū al-Ghayth al-Qashshāsh, Tunis, Early 1600s -- 2.4. Shaykh Abū al-Qāsim ibn Khalaf -- 2.5. Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Conversion and Resistance -- 1. Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā al-Zwāwī al-Yūsifī, 1630s -- 2. Muḥammad al-Tāzī and Bil-Ghayth al-Drāwī, 1656-1667 -- 3. Imam Ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Ṣaʿīdī, 1718 -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Ransom and Return -- 1. Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Mahdī al-Ghazzāl (1766) -- 2. Ibn ʿUthmān al-Miknāsī (1779-1783) -- 3. Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Captivity of Books -- Epilogue. Esclaves turcs in European Sculpture -- Postscript. How Should the Sculptures Be Treated? -- Bibliography -- Index of Captives -- General Index. |
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ISBN: | 9004440259 |