Muqarnas : an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world. Vol. 24 /

Muqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles de...

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Corporate Author: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Other Authors: Bozdoğan, Sibel, Necipoğlu, Gülru, Bailey, Julia, 1944-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Brill, ©2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Entangled discourses: scrutinizing Orientalist and nationalist legacies in the architectural historiography of the "Lands of Rum" / Sibel Bozdoǧan and Gülru Necipoğlu
  • A Rome of one's own: reflections on cultural geography and identity in the Lands of Rum / Cemal Kafadar
  • An uneasy historiography: the legacy of Ottoman architecture in the former Arab provinces / Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh
  • Art history and the nation: Arthur Upham Pope and the discourse on "Persian art" in the early twentieth century / Kishwar Rizvi
  • Formalism and the academic foundation of Turkish art in the early twentieth century / Oya Pancaroǧlu
  • Lost in translation: architecture, taxonomy, and the eastern "Turks" / Finbarr Barry Flood
  • Architecture and the search for Ottoman origins in the Tanzimat Period / Ahmet Ersoy
  • Creation of a national genius: Sinan and the historiography of "Classical" Ottoman architecture / Gülru Necipoğlu
  • Westernization, decadence, and the Turkish Baroque: modern constructions of the eighteenth century / Shirine Hamadeh
  • Reading Ottoman architecture through modernist lenses: nationalist historiography and the "New Architecture" in the Early Republic / Sibel Bozdoǧan
  • "Our Anatolia": organicism and the making of humanist culture in Turkey / S.M. Can Bilsel
  • "What have you done for Anatolia today?" Islamic archaeology in the early years of the Turkish Republic / Scott Redford
  • Museums and narratives of display from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic / Wendy Shaw
  • The architectural heritage of Istanbul and the ideology of preservation / Nur Altinyildiz.