Mahboob Qirvanian
Mahboob Qirvanian (born Tunisia 1894) was an enslaved person who, after being bought and sold several times, his name changing each time, was educated as a slave in the Ottoman Middle East and went on to write a Persian- and Arabic-language memoir of his life. The work is noted as a rare autobiographical account of life as a slave in the Middle East.[1] Qirvanian was eventually liberated and became an Iranian citizen.[2]
Further reading
[edit]- Mirzai, Behnaz A., ed. (2025). The life of an enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran: the autobiography of Mahboob Qirvanian. New landscapes in Middle East studies. Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4875-6132-1.
References
[edit]- ^ "Newly translated text unearths history of slavery in the Middle East". The Brock News, a news source for Brock University. Retrieved 2025-06-26.
- ^ Mirzai, Behnaz A., ed. (2025). The life of an enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran: the autobiography of Mahboob Qirvanian. New landscapes in Middle East studies. Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4875-6132-1.
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