The Image Of An Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture And Urban Experience In Aleppo In The 16th And 17th Centuries (Ottoman Empire & Its Heritage, 33) - Hardcover

Watenpaugh, Heghnar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004124543 ISBN 13: 9789004124547

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2004

Synopsis

The Image of an Ottoman City 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. Full description

About this title

About the Author:

Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, Ph.D. (1999) in Art History, University of California Los Angeles, is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis. She has published on the urban and architectural history of Islamic societies.

Review:

Winner of the 2006 Spiro Kostof Award

"The book is excellently produced, as one would expect from Brill." - Peter Clark, in: Asian Affairs, 2005
"... an imaginatively conceptualized, rigorously researched, and carefully written study..."
"...is sophisticated and intellectually mature, a model of scholarship in the Kostof tradition..."

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 9004124543
• ISBN 13: 9789004124547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 278