This study investigates archtectural patronage of women through internal dynamics of the dynastic Ottoman household and sultans' political agendas throughout different phases of the empire-principality, transition period, ...

This work proposes that particularly at the end of nineteenth century a change occured in furniture and household goods in the Ottoman capital city of Istanbul. Modernisation/westernisation movements accelerated. Western ...

This dissertation investigates the urban, architectural, and ceremonial formations of the Sultan Ahmed and Masjed-e Shah complexes, erected in early seventeenth century Istanbul and Isfahan by rival monarchs, Ahmed I ...

Underlying this thesis is the conjecture that the Evrenosoğlu family’s patronage activities between the late fourteenth and the mid sixteenth centuries, and the destiny of their power base Yenice-i Vardar, were not independent ...

This dissertation focuses on the 1720 imperial circumcision festival that was held in Istanbul during the reign of Ahmed III (r. 1703-1730). It intends to present the first comprehensive monograph on an Ottoman imperial ...

This study examines the dynastic mausoleums constructed in the courtyard of the Hagia Sophia complex between 1574 and 1639 within the context of the Ottoman architectural culture in general and, of the cultural and political ...

Throughout the nineteenth century, hundreds of women travelers from Western Europe and North America sketched in Ottoman lands. For many, sketching was not only a tool for active observation, but a means of interaction. ...

The sultanate of Murād III (1574-1595) was an era of artistic advancement in terms of book production. The Mataāliʻü’s-saʻāde (Paris BnF Suppl. Turc 242 & New York Morgan M. 788), as a compendium that includes astrology, ...

This thesis examines women’s participation in dervish lodges in the late fifteenth and the first half of sixteenth centuries. For the issue, three mosque complexes of Ottoman Constantinople were chosen to be investigated: ...