Abstract
This article analyses the production of visual and textual representations of the imprisonment of Muslim rulers. The first case study deals with the representations of Saddam Hussein in English language media (principally in Britain and the United States) following his capture on 13 December 2003. The second addresses the texts, woodcuts and theatrical performances of the late fifteenth to the eighteenth century dealing with the captivity of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I Yildirim (d. 1403) by Temür (Tamerlane, d. 1405) following the battle of Ankara in 1402. The comparison of the treatment of these two events in both text and image reveals the presence of common strategies including the employment of historical or literary references and the imagining of forms of violent and/or sexualized humiliation.
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