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Book SynopsisMediterranean 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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 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 Musṭafā ibn Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Karāma (9 July 1606) 5 Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭayyib al-Tafilātī al-Mālikī (Early Eighteenth Century) 6 Sayyid ʿAlī ibn al-Sayyid Aḥmad (ca. 1713) 7 Faṭma (1798) 8 Ibrāḥīm Librīs (1802) 9 Conclusion 2 Letters 1 Conclusion 3 Divine Intervention: Christian and Islamic 1 Christian 2 Muslim 4 Conversion and Resistance 1 Aḥmad ibn Yaḥya 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 5 Ransom and Return 1 Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Mahdī al-Ghazzāl (1766) 2 Ibn ʿUthmān al-Miknāsī (1779–1783) 3 Conclusion 6 Captivity of Books Epilogue: Esclaves turcs in Sculpture Postscript: How Should the Sculptures Be Treated? Bibliography Index
