Hulâsatüʼl-iʻtibâr = A Summary of Admonitions: A Chronicle of the 1768-1774 Russian-Ottoman War

This book is an edition and translation of one of the most significant Ottoman Turkish chronicles of the latter eighteenth-century, Ahmed Resmi's Hulâsatüʼl-iʻtibâr. Resmi wrote this work circa 1780 in reaction to his empire's catastrophic defeat against Russia in the 1768-74 Russo-Turkish War. Anatomizing the defeat, his account is sharply critical of Ottoman policy, war efforts, and prevalent political attitudes toward Christian powers. I provide the edited original Turkish, based on a manuscript in Cairo, along with an English translation and introduction.