The Muslim Bonaparte: Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pasha's Greece

by K.E. Fleming

Book Overview

Ali Pasha of Ioannina (?1750-1822), the Ottoman-appointed governor of the northern mainland of Greece, was a towering figure in Ottoman, Greek, and European history. Based on an array of literatures, paintings, and musical scores, this is the first English-language critical biography about him in recent decades. K. E. Fleming shows that the British and French diplomatic experience of Ali was at odds with the "orientalist" literatures that he inspired...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691601828
• ISBN13: 9780691601823
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"