TEPEDELENLİ ALİ PAŞA BİYOGRAFİLERİ ÜZERİNE

Abstract

This paper aims to determine the common and different aspects in the works by comparing and contrasting the Ottoman statesman Pasha of portraits in Yanya Sultan by South African author William Plomer, in The Lion of Janina and the last days of the Janissaries by Slovakian author Maurus Jokai and in Ali Pasha of Tepelena by French author Alexandre Dumas with the monograph Ali Pasha of and his property by Albanian historian and author Entela Muco. Moreover, we will analyze how different authors from four different countries deal with and refer to the same topic. Thus, findings and descriptions on Albania and the Balkans will be compared with each other. We will analyze the perspectives of English, Slovak, French and Albanian authors during on the Eastern world and its people and institutions in a comparative way. While the first three authors depict Pasa from an outside point of wiew, the last author mentions his country and a historical figure from his own country from a historian perspective. We will have reviews on all of the works and on the presence of Orientalist elements. Through the four works examined, we will attempt to draw an objective Tepedelenli Pasa portrait. In this respect, we will discuss the intersection points of the biography of Pasha of Tepelena, a historical figure, with his real life.