Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe

Prisoner Of The Infidels brings the seventeenth-century memoir of Osman Agha of Timisoara-slave, adventurer, and diplomat-into English for the first time. The sweeping story of Osman's life begins upon his capture and subsequent enslavement during the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars. Adrift in a landscape far from his home and traded from one master to another, Osman tells a tale of indignation and betrayal but also of wonder and resilience, punctuated with queer trysts, back-alley knife fights, and ...