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The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban Experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th Centuries: 33 (Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage)
Author(s): Heghnar Watenpaugh (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 27 Jun. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 348 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004124543
- ISBN-13: 9789004124547
Book Description
This urban and architectural study of Aleppo reconstructs the citys 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.
Editorial Reviews
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Winner of the 2006 Spiro Kostof Award
“… an imaginatively conceptualized, rigorously researched, and carefully written study…”
“…is sophisticated and intellectually mature, a model of scholarship in the Kostof tradition…”
“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 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.
