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The Sultan's fountain : an imperial story of Cairo, Istanbul, and Amsterdam / Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Jarosław Dobrowolski.
Fine Arts Library NA9413.E3 D63 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dobrowolska, Agnieszka.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fountains--Egypt--Cairo.
- Fountains.
- Islamic architecture--Egypt--Cairo--18th century.
- Islamic architecture.
- Islamic architecture--Conservation and restoration.
- Architecture, Ottoman--Egypt--Cairo.
- Architecture, Ottoman.
- Mustafa III, Sultan of the Turks, 1717-1774.
- Mustafa.
- Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--Egypt--Cairo.
- Historic buildings.
- Delftware.
- Islamic art--Egypt--Cairo.
- Islamic art.
- Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration.
- Cairo (Egypt)--Description and travel.
- Cairo (Egypt).
- Egypt--Cairo.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 182 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- A Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo, 2011.
- Summary:
- An exquisite small building built by the Ottoman Sultan Mustafa III in 1760 is the subject of this fascinating, accessible, and heavily illustrated history. The volume describes the building's design as a charitable foundation containing a public fountain and a school, and for its unique history, architectural style, and decoration, which combine classic Turkish Ottoman features with Dutch tile decoration and Cairene architectural principles. Husband and wife, the authors are architects based in Cairo. Distributed in North America by Oxford University Press. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Istanbul: The Sultan
- Along the Nile, and on the Bosphorus 2
- "Do not expect us to save the world which is being ruined" 16
- Mustafa the Builder 34
- Cairo: The Sabil
- Architecture as a Message 48
- "God has purified you, O Sister of al-Husayn" 54
- The Canal 68
- One Building, Different Histories 78
- Amsterdam: The Tiles
- The Delft Blue 104
- Little Holland on a Different Canal 120
- The Tale of a Mute Storyteller
- The Story of Ninety Thousand Days 132
- Conservation: The Treatment 160
- Conservation: The People 170.
- Notes:
- "The small sabil-kuttab (a charitable foundation particular to Cairo that combines a public water dispensary with a Quranic school) built in 1760 opposite the venerated Sayida Zeinab Mosque is almost unique in Cairo: it is one of only two dedicated by a reigning Ottoman sultan, and - astonishingly - it is decorated inside with blue-and-white tiles from Amsterdam depicting happy scenes from the Dutch countryside. Why did the sultan, Mustafa III, cloistered in his Istanbul palace, decide to build a sabil in Cairo? Why did he choose this site for it? How did it come to be adorned with Dutch tiles? What were the connections between Cairo, Istanbul, and Amsterdam in the middle of the eighteenth century? The authors answer these questions and many more in this entertaining and beautifully illustrated history of an extraordinary building, describing also the recent conservation efforts to preserve it for posterity"--Inside front cover.
- ISBN:
- 9789774165238
- 9774165233
- OCLC:
- 781716427
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