Bringing forgotten works to light, translating Late Ottoman & Early Republican works.
OUT NOW! In Tripoli: Enver Pasha's Diary during the Turco-Italian War
OUT NOW!
The long-awaited and first ever English translation of Enver Pasha's letters during the Turco-Italian War (1911-1912), compiled into the form of a diary alongside the letters he sent to his wife.
Available on Amazon!
https://t.co/E1h3VFqvPX
A bombastic review of ‘In Tripoli: Enver Pasha’s Diary during the Turco-Italian War’ by @BheriaMS, a special thanks to the team of @MuslimSkepticHQ@Haqiqatjou for taking their time to post this
"The poet says: And the unjust Italians forgot that behind them is an experienced, skilled commander, Enver Pasha."
By Salem Mohammed Al-Flaylih, a prominent folk poet from Derna on the Battle of Sidi Abdullah (the Battle of Derna)
"The wind that destroyed the building of the watchtower.
A good wind blew with the striking of the shell.
The building of all who followed them was demolished.
Unjust ones, they do not reckon it (Enver) behind them.
Anwar, the Pasha, drowning are his seas."
A Libyan poem, 1912
I clench my fists and swear to take revenge, to take revenge for everything against us. Well then, what about this Europe?”
Enver Pasha, 23 April 1913, on the Bulgarians taking Edirne during the Balkan Wars
“And the nations of Europe!! I swear in the name of Allah that I will take the revenge of these poor ones. O Allah, not only them, small children, girls, the elderly, women, they (the Bulgarians) are slaughtering all of them, and without any mercy….
“This time, my duty is leading me toward a goal from which I will obtain no material benefit. Libya, the unfortunate land, is lost for the moment �� who knows, perhaps forever. Why do I still go there? To fulfill a moral duty the entire Islamic world expects of us!”
Enver, 1911
Zeki Velidi Togan was a Bashkir Revolutionary & a leader of the Basmachi Revolt turned intellectual, reportedly the two lived in the same apartment in Vienna at some point. They met after Freud complained that Togan walking in his apartment without sandals created too much noise.
“You turn psychoanalysis, an interesting science, into the philosophy of these pamphlets of yours and you end up producing works that would only be read by perverts who shamelessly tell stories about how they watched their sisters naked through a keyhole.”
Zeki V. Togan to Freud
from the Caucasian coasts to Crimea.
With the effect of typhus added to these hardships, Enver had been severely ill for two months.”
From the magazine Livâ’ül Islam (Banner of Islam) of the Revolutionary Islamic Union under Enver Pasha, 15 September 1921
“In the winter of 1918, in four attempts to pass from Crimea to the Caucasus by sea, Enver had not been successful, especially in the last one, the masts of the sailing ship he boarded were broken, after rolling for 2 nights and 3 days in storms in the Black Sea, he was cast back
You can buy the PDF here :
https://t.co/EMXjRS6pVJ
It's just over 50 pages (as I said, tried to keep it short but w/o sacrificing the essential)
(will try to upload it on Amazon Kindle as well in'sha'Allah).
“If I die with my honor, do not forget me. May my memory, like my body, not be buried in the burning sands of the desert.”
Enver Pasha, Libya, 8 October 1911.
A letter of an Ottoman soldier to his ANZAC enemies during the Gallipoli campaign (1915):
“I’ll f*ck your mother and wife, we will massacre all of you
Take this note and put it in the p*ssy of your mother”