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Istanbul
With its varied and glorious history, Istanbul remains one of the world’s perennially fascinating cities. Richard Tillinghast, who first visited Istanbul in the early 1960s and has watched it transform over the decades into a vibrant metropolis, explores its rich art and architecture, culture, cuisine, and much more in this book. Istanbul was known in Byzantine times as the “Queen of Cities” and to the Ottoman Turks as the “Abode of Felicity.” Steeped in Istanbul’s history, Tillinghast takes his readers on a voyage of discovery through this storied cultural hub, and he is as comfortable talking about Byzantine mosaics and dervish ceremonies as Iznik ceramics and the imperial mosques. His lyrical writing brings Istanbul alive on the page as he accompanies readers to cafés, palaces, and taverns, perfectly conjuring the atmospheric delights, sounds, and senses of the city. Illuminating Istanbul’s great buildings with tales that bring Ottoman and Byzantine history to life, Tillinghast is adept at discovering both what the city remembers and what it chooses to forget.
The Politics of Making
A unique collection of contemporary writings, this book explores the politics involved in the making and experiencing of architecture and cities from a cross-cultural and global perspective Taking a broad view of the word ‘politics’, the essays address a range of questions, including: What is the relationship between politics and the making of space? What role has theory played in reinforcing or resisting political power? What are the political difficulties associated with working relationships? Do the products of our making construct our identity or liberate us? A timely volume, focusing on an interdisciplinary debate on the politics of making, this is valuable reading for all students, professionals and academics interested or working in architectural theory.
Istanbul under Allied Occupation 1918-1923
This study covers the socio-political, intellectual and institutional dynamics of underground resistance to the Allied occupation in Istanbul. The city was clearly not the seat of treason against the Nationalist struggle for independence, nor was collaboration with the occupiers what it was made out to be in Republican historiography. Above and beyond the international conjuncture in post-WWI Europe, factors that helped the Turkish Nationalists to succeed were: inter-Allied rivalries in the Near East that carried over to Istanbul; the British, French and Italians as major occupation forces, failing to establish a balance of strenght among themselves in their haste to promote respective national interests; the victors underestimating the defeated as they were engrossed with bureaucracy and were assailed by the influx of Russian refugees, Bolshevik propaganda, and the Turkish left.
Sufism and Society
This book examines the relationship between Sufism and society in the later medieval and early modern Islamic world. Thematically organized, it includes case studies drawn from the Middle Eastern, Turkic, Persian and South Asian regions. It looks to reconceptualize the study of Sufism during an under-researched period of its history.
Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East
A multifaceted study of Turkey's diplomatic, economic, social and cultural relations with the Middle East in the interwar period.
Current Debates in Tourism & Development Studies
This book focus on to comprehensively examine tourism and development debates with some local cases and global conceptual perspective. Throughout the book, case studies and photographs are provided to illustrate key points. The list of references is impressive and exhaustive, which confirms the authors’ intentions to take an overall trip to the existing literature. Practically nothing has been omitted; all relevant authors have been consulted and the structure of the book follows an organized order. This is why this book will be of a great interest to tourism and development studies, students at first place is also for managers, academics, politicians and all others interested in the subject.
Languages of Dress in the Middle East
Considers how the languages of dress in the region connect with other social practices, and with political and religious conformity in particular. Treating cases as diverse as practices of veiling in Oman and dress reform laws in Turkey, these ethnographic studies extend from Malta to the ME and Caucasus.
Altın Şehrin Romanı: Türk Romanında Üsküdar (1871-1950)
Tarihî ve kültürel zenginliği, etkileyici tabiatı ve doğal güzelliklerini tamamlayan mimarîsi, dinî ve manevî hazinesi ile “Altın Şehir” Üsküdar, Türk edebiyatında önemli bir konuma sahiptir. 1950 öncesi Türk romanına bir bütün olarak bakıldığında Üsküdar’ın önemli bir mekân olduğu ve eserlerde geniş bir şekilde yer aldığı görülür. Üsküdar, birçok romancının eserine şehircilik anlayışı ve mimarîsi; tabiatı ve doğal güzellikleri; gündelik, sosyal ve sanat hayatı; aşk, huzur ve eğlence mekânı oluşu; hayalleri süsleyen ve efsanelere konu olan yapısı; mazisi ve tarihe tanıklığı; dünden bugüne Asya ile Avrupa arasında bir...
Ottoman Baroque
A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its relationship with the West.
