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

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

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.

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Main Author: Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
Series:Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 33.
Subjects:
Architecture, Ottoman > Syria > Aleppo.
Islamic architecture > Syria > Aleppo.
Architecture and state > Syria > Aleppo > History > 16th century.
Architecture and state > Syria > Aleppo > History > 17th century.
Aleppo (Syria) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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