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Index
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
List of Chronology
List of Rulers
Part One
Introduction
I. Popular Sources: Accounts of Muslim Captivity in Christendom
The Captives “Speak”—and Write
Captivity and the Other
Captivity and Karamat
Captivity of Women
European Captives and New Muslims
II. Elite Sources: Muslim Ambassadors in Christendom
Al-Nafhah al-Miskiyah
Ahmad ibn Qasim and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Ma‘ni II
The Widening Exposure
Ambassadors and European Women
Non-Muslim Ambassadors
Conclusion: Encountering the Dunya of the Christians
Nasr
Sina‘a / Technology
Part Two
Translations
1. 1578: Letters of Radwan al-Janawy on Muslim Captives, in Tuhfat al-Ikhwan, Rabat National Library, MS Kaf 154, fols. 423–424, 427–428.
2. After 1588: Description of the Defeat of the Armada, by Abu Faris ‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Fishtali, in Rasa’il Sa‘diyah, ed. ‘Abdallah Gannūn, 152–157.
3. ca. 1589–1591: A Journey from Morocco to Istanbul and Back, in Abu Hasan ‘Ali ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Ali Muhammad al-Tamjruti, Al-Nafhah al-Miskiyah fī al-Safarah al-Turkiyah, ed. ‘Abd al-Latīf al-Shadhili, 28–29, 41–42, 65, 74–76, 84–86, 90–94, 128–132, 140–141.
4. After June 1596: Description of the English Attack on Cadiz, in Abu Faris ‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Fishtali, Manahil al-Safa’, ed. ‘Abd al-Karīm Karīm, 193–196.
5. 1613–1618: Description of Pisa and Florence, in Lunban fī ‘Ahd al-Amīr Fakhr al-Dīn al-Ma‘ni al-Thani, ed. Asad Rustum and Fu’ad Afram al-Bustani, 208–224.
6. 1623: Expulsion of the Moriscos and the Miraculous Ransoming of Muslim Captives, in Al-Muntasir ibn Abi Lihya al-Qafsi, Nūr al-Armash fī Manaqib al-Qashash, ed. Lutfi ’Isa and Husayn Bujarrah, 138–141, 151–154.
7. 1633–1635: Letters from Tunis by Osman/Thomas d’Arcos, a Convert to Islam, Les Correspondants de Peiresc: Lettres inédites publiées et annotées, ed. Philippe Tamizey de Larroque, 2:23–28, 36–39. French original.
8. 1635: Letter About Muslim Captives Converted to Christianity, Rabat National Library, MS Jīm 223, 101–103.
9. 1635: Expulsion of the Moriscos, Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Rafī‘ ibn Muhammad al-Andalusi, Al-Anwar al-Nabawiyah fī Aba’ Khayr al-Bariyah, in A. Turki, “Wathai’q al-Hijra al-Andalūsiyah al-Akhīrah,” Hawliyat al-Jami‘ah al-Tunisiyah 4 (1967): 27–39.
10. 1642: Description of the World, in Ahmad ibn Qasim, Nasir al-Dīn ‘ala al-Qawm al-Kafirīn, ed. Muhammad Razzūq, 95–99.
11a. Before 1688: Christian Attack on Jarbah (Tunisia) in 1510, in Sulayman ibn Ahmad al-Hilati, ‘Ulama’ Jarbah, ed. Muhammad Qawjah, 32–39.
11b. 1685: Bombardment of Tripoli, Libya, by the French Fleet, in Ahmad ibn Khaled al-Nasiri, Tal‘at al-Mushtari, 2:28–30.
12. 1681–1691: Battle Accounts, in Taqayīd Tarīkhiyah, Rabat Royal Library, MS 12352.
13. 1590–1654: Euro-Tunisian Piracy, in Ibn Abi Dinar, Kitab al-Mu’nis fī Akhbar Ifrīqiyah wa-Tūnis, 190–202.
14. Before September 2, 1706: Letter of Mulay Isma‘il to the English Parliament, Les Sources Filalienne, ed. Brissac, 6:349–354.
15. November 1, 1707: Letter from a Captive in France, ed. Jamal Vannan, Nusūs wa Watha’iq fī Tarīkh al-Jaza’ir al-Hadīth 1500–1830, 144–145.
16a. 1713: Letters of Bentura de Zari, Moroccan Ambassador Under House Arrest in London, National Archives, Kew, SP 71/16/63–65, 70–71. English original.
16b. January 12, 1717: Letter of Mulay Isma‘il to Philip V, in Muhammad al-Saghīr al-Ifranī, Rawdat al-Ta‘rīf, ed. ‘Abd al-Wahab Benmansour, 133–134.
17. 1726–1727: On Quinine, in Husayn Khūjah, Al-Asrar al-Kamīnah, ed. al-Karray al-Qusantīni, 31–43.
18. Mid-Eighteenth century: Captivity in Malta, in Abu al-Qasim al-Zayani, Al-Tarjumanah al-Kubra, ed. ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Filali, 192–193.
19. 1782: Muhammad ibn ‘Uthman al-Miknasi. Falling in Love in Naples, in Al-Badr al-Safir li Hidayat al-Musafir ila Fikak al-Asara min Yad al-‘Aduww al-Kafir. Rabat National Library, MS Ha 52, fols. 145–150.
20. 1798: Letter from a Female Captive in Malta, Muhammad Razzūq, Dirasat fī Tarīkh al-Maghrib, 178–181.
Notes
Bibliography
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