Mediterranean captivity through arab eyes, 1517-1798 / / Nabil Matar.
"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 f...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, the Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : BRILL,, [2021] 2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of 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?