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Author Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian, author.

Title The image of an Ottoman city : imperial architecture and urban experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th centuries / by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 278 pages) : illustrations
Series The Ottoman Empire and its heritage, 1380-6076 ; v. 33
Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 33.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index
Notes English
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Subject Architecture, Ottoman -- Syria -- Aleppo
Islamic architecture -- Syria -- Aleppo
Architecture and state -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 16th century
Architecture and state -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century
ARCHITECTURE -- Regional.
ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
Architecture and state
Architecture, Ottoman
Buildings
Islamic architecture
Stedenbouw.
Stadscultuur.
SUBJECT Aleppo (Syria) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Subject Syria -- Aleppo
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004050057
ISBN 9789047404224
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