Ottoman Architecture

A Study Published for the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair

Edited by Mary Roberts, Samuel Williams & Gay McAuley

Ottoman Architecture is the first modern history of Ottoman architecture written by Ottomans themselves, yet it is little known outside the field of late Ottoman studies. This magnificently-illustrated volume codifies the empire’s architectural history into a series of preliminary stages culminating in the efflorescence of the Ottoman classical tradition in the sixteenth-century.

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Series: The Modern Muslim World16

Publication Date: Jan 26,2024

Interior Color: Black with Color Inserts

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Page Count: 339

ISBN: 978-1-4632-4170-4

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Ottoman Architecture is the first modern history of this architectural tradition commissioned by the Ottoman state, yet it is little known outside the field of late Ottoman studies. Produced for the Vienna World’s Fair in 1873, this magnificently illustrated volume endeavoured to define what was distinctive about Ottoman culture and codifies the empire’s 600-year architectural history into a series of developmental stages, emphasising the efflorescence of the Ottoman classical tradition during the sixteenth century. Composed at a formative moment when the Ottoman Empire was striving to conceive of its modernity in relation to other empires in Europe and Asia, the authors carefully position this imperial architectural legacy in relation to other modernising projects in the late Ottoman Empire. This new translation is accompanied by a scholarly introduction that contextualises its visual and historiographic significance.

	Contributor	Biography
	MaryRoberts	Mary Roberts is Professor of Art History and Nineteenth-Century Studies at the University of Sydney. Her books include Istanbul Exchanges. Ottomans, Orientalists and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture (University of California Press, 2015), awarded AAANZ’s Best Book Prize and translated into Turkish, and Intimate Outsiders. The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature (Duke University Press, 2007).
	SamuelWilliams	Samuel Williams is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. His research examines the economy and politics of cultural heritage, particularly in contemporary Istanbul, and he has held prior appointments at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Musée du Quai Branly, and the Max Planck – Cambridge Centre for Economy, Ethics, and Social Change.
	GayMcAuley	Gay McAuley was an Associate Professor in the departments of French and Performance Studies at the University of Sydney. She has published a number of translations from French, including One Day in France: Tragedy and Betrayal in an Occupied Village by J-M. Borzeix (London, I.B. Tauris, 2016).

Acknowledgments (vii)

Introduction. An Historical Ethnography of Ottoman Architecture: Translating and Visualizing Empire in 1873 (ix)

Note about the Translation (xliii)

Glossary of Basic Terms (xlv)

Ottoman Architecture (1)

Contents (2)

Part One

I Preface (5)

II A Brief History (7)

III Technical Dossier (13)

Part Two

I Essay on the Yeşil Cami in Bursa (25)

II Essay on the Süleymaniye in Constantinople (35)

III Essay on the Selimiye in Adrianople (41)

IV Essay on the Yeni Cami of Constantinople at Eminönü (47)

V Essay on the Türbe of Sultan Süleyman the Lawgiver (51)

VI Essay on the Türbe of the Şehzade (55)

VII Essay on the Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III at Bab-ı Hümayun (Constantinople) (59)

VIII Essay on the Fountain at Azabkapı (63)

Part Three

I Ornamental Floral Designs and their Transformations (67)

II Observations Concerning Ottoman Ornamentation (73)

III Catalogue of Works by the Renowned Ottoman Architect Master Sinan (81)

Annotated List of Plates (91)

The Plates (103)

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