The image of an Ottoman city : imperial architecture and urban experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th centuries / by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh.

Main entry:

Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian.

Title & Author:

The image of an Ottoman city : imperial architecture and urban experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th centuries / by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh.

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Description:

xxi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

The Ottoman Empire and its heritage, 1380-6076 ; v. 33

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. The Aleppine context -- 3. The construction of a monumental corridor: the great complexes of the sixteenth century -- 4. The decentering of patronage: Dervish lodges and endowments of the seventeenth century -- 5. The Ottomanization of the past -- 6. The image of an Ottoman city -- 7. Epilogue.

Summary:

This urban and architectural study of Aleppo, a center of early modern global trade, draws upon archival and narrative texts, architectural evidence, and contemporary theoretical discussions of the relation between imperial ideology, urban patterns and rituals, and architectural form. The first two centuries of Ottoman rule fostered tremendous urban development and reorientation through judiciously sited acts of patronage. Monumental structures endowed by Ottoman officials both introduced a new imperial architecture from Istanbul and incorporated formal elements from the local urban visual language. By viewing the urban and social contexts of these acts, tracing their evolution over two centuries, and examining their discussion in Ottoman and Arabic sources, this book proposes a new model for understanding the local reception and adaptation of imperial forms, institutions and norms. -- Back cover.

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ISBN:

9004124543 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
9789004124547 (hardback ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Ottoman Syria Aleppo.
Islamic architecture Syria Aleppo.
Architecture and state Syria Aleppo History 16th century.
Architecture and state Syria Aleppo History 17th century.
Architecture ottomane Syrie Alep.
Architecture islamique Syrie Alep.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Syrie Alep Histoire 16e siècle.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Syrie Alep Histoire 17e siècle.
Architecture and state.
Architecture, Ottoman.
Buildings.
Islamic architecture.
Osmanische Architektur
Stadtentwicklung
Stedenbouw.
Stadscultuur.
Arkitektur historia Osmanska riket Aleppo.
Aleppo (Syria) Buildings, structures, etc.
Syria Aleppo.
Aleppo

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 33.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247694
Call No.: NA1489.7.A43 W37 2004
Status: Available

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