Title The image of an Ottoman city : imperial architecture and urban experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th centuries / by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh.

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

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Description	1 online resource (xxi, 278 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	The Ottoman Empire and its heritage, 1380-6076 ; v. 33
	Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 33.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.
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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Architecture, Ottoman -- Syria -- Aleppo.
	Architecture, Ottoman.
	Syria -- Aleppo.
	Islamic architecture -- Syria -- Aleppo.
	Islamic architecture.
	Aleppo (Syria) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Chronological Term	1500-1699
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian. Image of an Ottoman city. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004 (DLC) 2004050057
ISBN	9789047404224 (electronic book)
	904740422X (electronic book)
	1433705478
	9781433705472
	9789004124547 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
	9004124543 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
	9004124543 (hardback ; acid-free paper)

Title The image of an Ottoman city : imperial architecture and urban experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th centuries / by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh.

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