Episode 6: Ottomans and Sanussis
We look at the history of Libya between the removal of the Qaramanli Dynasty in 1835 up to the Tripolitanian War in 1911.
Read MoreEpisode 5: Qaramanlis and Corsairs
In this episode we backtrack the narrative two centuries to when the Qaramanli Dynasty came to power in Tripoli, and how they engaged in a campaign of piracy that eventually lead to their demise.
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Libya, John Wright
North Africa 1800-1900: A Survey from the Nile Valley to the Atlantic, Magali Morsy
A History of Modern Libya, Dirk Vandewalle
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776-Present, Michael B. Oren
Thomas Jefferson’s Quran: Islam and the Founders, Denise A. Spellberg
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger