Mathieu Grenet: Tripoli as seen by a captive (1660s)
Antoine Quartier’s The Religious Slave and His Adventures (1690) offers a rare European account of 17th-century Tripoli. Quartier’s observations, though brief, provide insights into Tripoli’s urban, political, and economic landscape under Ottoman rule, highlighting its coastal prosperity contrasted with a desert and mountainous hinterland. The city’s cosmopolitan population—comprising Arabs, Turks... »
