The Women who Built the Ottoman World: Female Patronage and the Architectural Legacy of Gulnus Sultan (Library of Ottoman Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (721 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1784539260 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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These educated and discerning patrons left a great array of buildings across the Ottoman lands; opulent, lavish and powerful palaces and mausoleums, but also essential works for ordinary citizens, such as bridges and waterworks. Gulnus Sultan for example, the head of the imperial harem under Mehmed IV and mother to his sons, was often pictured on horseback, and travelled widely across the Middle East commissioning architects and craftsmen as she went. Muzaffer Ozgules here uses new primary scholarship and archaeological evidence to reveal the stories of these Imperial builders. The Women Who Built the Ottoman World is a valuable contribution to the architectural history of the Ottoman Empire, and to the growing history of the women within it.. Her buildings were personal projects designed to showcase Ottoman power and they were built from Constantinople to Mecca, from modern-day Ukraine to Algeria. 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. One hitherto overlooked aspect of the empire's remarkable cultural legacy was the role of powerful women - often the head of the harem, or wives or mothers of Sultans. Ozgules seeks to re-establish the importance of some of these buildings, since lost, and traces the history of those that remain
He not only presents to the reader a distinct period of early modern Ottoman architectural history under the patronage of the Sultana, but also explores the adventurous life of a fascinating individual.' - Aygul Agir, Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University . `In The Women Who Built the Ottoman World, Muzaffer OEzgules brings to life the story of Gulnus Sultan
He gained his PhD in Architectural History at Istanbul Technical University in 2013. . Muzaffer Ozgules is the Barakat Trust Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Khalili Research Centre at the University of Oxford