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Book SynopsisDelves into a royal tomb in order to expand our understanding of Ottoman palace culture
Trade Review"Douglas Brookes's meticulous study?zooms in on a small graveyard in Istanbul which has been the resting place for several members of the Ottoman dynasty as well as other officials of the imperial court who expired from the 1780s to 1860s. The book can rightly be regarded as a micro-history that takes this cemetery as its starting point. Readers not only learn the building's history, its architectural and physical features but in a more detailed fashion about the people buried here. The author narrates these people's lives and informs us of the circumstances in which they died, their illnesses, their pedigree. This approach brings about an unusual and gratifying peek into some of the dynamics of the Ottoman court in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries." -Hakan Karateke, Professor of Ottoman & Turkish Culture, Language & Literature, University of Chicago
