The image of an Ottoman city: imperial architecture and urban experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th centuries
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Main Author: Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2004
Series:Ottoman Empire and its heritage v. 33
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Item Description: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 278 p.)
ISBN:1433705478
904740422X
9781433705472
9789047404224

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