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This book examines how buildings and construction sites reflect shifting attitudes towards architectural practice, style, and representation in the fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire. The book demonstrates how workers from Anatolia, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, Iran and Central Asia participated in such construction projects.

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Introduction: Material politics of architecture in a fluid empire; 1. Imperial and local horizons: Looking east and west; 2. Immersive space: Empire building and the ottoman frontier; 3. Under the influence: Creating cosmopolitan architectures; 4. Building paradise: Afterlife and dynastic politics; 5. An ottoman aesthetic consolidation C. 1500; Conclusion; Bibliography.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/08/2022
      ISBN13: 9781316517604, 978-1316517604
      ISBN10: 1316517608

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book examines how buildings and construction sites reflect shifting attitudes towards architectural practice, style, and representation in the fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire. The book demonstrates how workers from Anatolia, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, Iran and Central Asia participated in such construction projects.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Material politics of architecture in a fluid empire; 1. Imperial and local horizons: Looking east and west; 2. Immersive space: Empire building and the ottoman frontier; 3. Under the influence: Creating cosmopolitan architectures; 4. Building paradise: Afterlife and dynastic politics; 5. An ottoman aesthetic consolidation C. 1500; Conclusion; Bibliography.

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