The women who built the Ottoman world : female patronage and the architectural legacy of Gülnuş Sultan / by Muzaffer Özgüleş.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Özgüleş, Muzaffer, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gülnûş Sultan, 1642-1715.

Gülnûş Sultan.

Women--Turkey--Biography.

Women.

Turkey--History--Mehmed IV, 1648-1687.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 pages, 16 numbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), photographs

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Female patronage and the architectural legacy of Gulnus Sultan

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2017.

Summary:

"At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman Empire remained the grandest and most powerful of Middle Eastern empires. 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. 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. Muzaffer Ozgules here uses new primary scholarship and archaeological evidence to reveal the stories of these Imperial builders. Gülnuş Sultan for example, the favourite of the imperial harem under Mehmed IV and mother to his sons, was exceptionally pictured on horseback, travelled widely across the Middle East and Balkans, and commissioned architectural projects around the Empire. Her buildings were personal projects designed to showcase Ottoman power and they were built from Constantinople to Mecca, from modern-day Ukraine to Algeria. Ozgules seeks to re-establish the importance of some of these buildings, since lost, and traces the history of those that remain. 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

"PART I Ottoman Sultana: Wife, Mother and Patron. Introduction The Forgotten Star of the Sultanate of Women. 1. The Most Itinerant Sultana of the Harem: The Extraordinary Life of a Bishop's Daughter

2. Building Activities of Ottoman Sultanas up to GÜlnuŞ Sultan

PART II The Building Activities of GÜlnuŞ Sultan. 3. Conquest and Conversion: GÜlnuŞ Sultan's Name on the Frontiers ; 4. Statement of Religiosity: Mecca and the Pilgrimage Route ; 5. Galata New Mosque: Islamization of the Catholic Land ; 6. Water for All: Fountains in Edirne, Galata and Beyond ; 7. Magnum Opus: ÜskÜdar Yenİ Valİde Complex

PART III Architectural Legacy of Ottoman Royal Women 8. Building Activities of Ottoman Sultanas after GÜlnuŞ Sultan ; 9. A Comparison: Where do the Buildings of GÜlnuŞ Sultan Stand Within Ottoman Architecture? ; 10. Epilogue: Determinants of Ottoman Royal Women's Building Activities

Appendices

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Plates.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350989399

1350989398

9781786722089

1786722089

9781786732088

1786732084

OCLC:

1197662686