The Women Who Built the Ottoman World: Female Patronage and the Architectural Legacy of Gulnus Sultan

ISBN-13: 9781784539269 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 352 str.

Muzaffer Ozgules

Opis

At the beginning of the 18th Century, the Ottoman Empire remained the grandest and most powerful of Middle Eastern Empires - it was also the 'Golden Age' of Ottoman patronage.

Spis treści

PART I Ottoman Sultana: Wife, Mother and PatronIntroduction The Forgotten Star of the Sultanate of Women 1. The Most Itinerant Sultana of the Harem:The Extraordinary Life of a Bishop's Daughter2. Building Activities of Ottoman Sultanas up toGu¨ lnus¸ SultanPART II The Building Activities of Gu¨ lnus¸ Sultan3. Conquest and Conversion: Gu¨ lnus¸ Sultan's Nameon the Frontiers4. Statement of Religiosity: Mecca and the PilgrimageRoute5. Galata New Mosque: Islamization of the Catholic Land6. Water for All: Fountains in Edirne, Galata and Beyond7. Magnum Opus: U¨ sku¨ dar Yeni Valide ComplexPART III Architectural Legacy of Ottoman Royal Women8. Building Activities of Ottoman Sultanas afterGu¨ lnus?? Sultan9. A Comparison: Where do the Buildings of Gu¨ lnus¸Sultan Stand within Ottoman Architecture?10. Epilogue: Determinants of Ottoman Royal Women'sBuilding Activities

O autorze

Muzaffer OEzgule? is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Architecture at Gaziantep University, Turkey, and was the Barakat Trust Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Khalili Research Centre at the University of Oxford from 2014 to 2015. He gained his PhD in Architectural History at Istanbul Technical University in 2013.