| Description |
xx, 326 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Women and gender in the early modern world |
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Women and gender in the early modern world.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction : Royal Ottoman women as architectural patrons -- 2. From concubine to valide : Turhan Sultan's rise through the harem hierarchy -- 3. Ottoman women/other women -- 4. Defending the Dardanelles : the fortresses of Seddulbahir and Kumkale and the legacy of Turhan Sultan -- 5. Building in the capital : the Yeni Valide Mosque complex of Istanbul -- 6. The pillar of the state : architecture, agency and self-representation |
| Summary |
"Examined here is the historical figure and architectural patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan, the young mother of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV, who for most of the latter half of the seventeenth century shaped the political and cultural agenda of the Ottoman court. Captured in Russia at the age of twelve, she first served the reigning sultan's mother in Istanbul. She gradually rose through the ranks of the Ottoman harem, bore a male child to Sultan Ibrahim, and came to power as a valide sultan, or queen mother, in 1648. It was through her generous patronage of architectural works - including a large mosque, a tomb, a market complex in the city of Istanbul and two fortresses at the entrance to the Dardanelles - that she legitimated her new political authority as a valide and then attempted to support that of her son." "Central to this narrative is the question of how architecture was used by an imperial woman of the Ottoman court who, because of customary and religious restrictions, was unable to present her physical self before her subjects' gaze. In lieu of displaying an iconic image of herself, as Queen Elizabeth and Catherine de Medici were able to do. Turhan Sultan expressed her political authority and religious piety through the works of architecture she commissioned. Traditionally historians have portrayed the role of seventeenth-century royal Ottoman women in the politics of the empire as negative and de-stabilizing. But Lucienne Thys-Senocak, through her examination of these architectural works as concrete expressions of legitimate power and piety, shows the traditional framework to be both sexist and based on an outdated paradigm of decline."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-320) and index |
| Subject |
Turhan, consort of İbrahim, Sultan of the Turks, -1682 or 1683 -- Art patronage.
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Architecture and women -- Turkey -- History -- 17th century.
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Symbolism in architecture -- Turkey.
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Women -- Turkey -- Social conditions.
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| LC no. |
2005057083 |
| ISBN |
0754633101 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9780754633105 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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