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[Anglo-Turkish Society] Online lecture: ‘Prisoner of the Infidels: The Life and Adventures of Osman Agha of Timişoara, An Ottoman Muslim in 17th-Century Europe’, Giancarlo Casale
September 20, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm BST
In 1688, in the tumultuous aftermath of the failed Ottoman siege of Vienna, a young soldier by the name of Osman of Timişoara fell prisoner to the Austrian Habsburgs, and spent over a decade in captivity. In this respect, he was no different from thousands of other Ottoman subjects who, during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, fell into enemy hands for various reasons and spent time as enslaved captives in Christian Europe. What sets Osman apart, however, is that many years after his safe return to Ottoman territory, he decided to write a detailed account of his experience, resulting in the first book-length autobiography ever composed in Ottoman Turkish. Osman’s account, now available in English translation for the first time, is not only a gripping adventure tale–of prison breaks, back-alley knife fights, and fleeting love affairs–but also a deeply original and evocative work of literature, addressing the profound themes of personhood, self-discovery through alienation, and the impossibility of every truly ‘returning home’ after after an experience of enslavement. https://www.angloturkishsociety.org.uk/doc/Giancarlo-Casale-lecture.pdf
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