The image of an Ottoman city imperial architecture and urban experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th centuries - Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian (Brill, 2004)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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
This urban and architectural study of Aleppo reconstructs the city's evolution over the first two centuries of Ottoman rule and proposes a new model for the understanding of the reception and adaptation of imperial forms, institutions and norms in a provincial setting