"RE-THINKING HISTORIOGRAPHY ON OTTOMAN MOSQUE ARCHITECTURE: NINETEENTH CENTURY PROVINCIAL SULTAN MOSQUES"
Date Added
27/06/2022
Content Type
Dissertation
Category
Ph.D.
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Subject Area
Mosques
Author
CEREN KATİPOĞLU ÖZMEN
Publisher Name
CEREN KATİPOĞLU ÖZMEN
Description
The main objective of this dissertation is to propose an alternative historiography on
the 19th century Ottoman mosque architecture, free from the biased Eurocentric paradigms,
by means of including the ‘unseen’ actors of this history, namely the disregarded provincial
mosques. Provincial mosques constituting the case studies of the dissertation, point out to a
previously neglected part of historiography by changing the emphasis from the capital to the
provinces. Within the scope of this dissertation the following questions are discussed in depth:
How the sultan and/or state ideology was represented in the Ottoman provinces during the
19th century? What kind of a power relation can be observed between the capital and its
provinces through studying the characteristics of mosques architecture? In which aspects are
the sultan’s mosques in the capital and in the provinces differ from or resemble each other?
Can we discuss about distinguishing 19th century mosque architecture contrary to the
established interpretations such as tasteless or imitation of western modes?
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English
Ottoman provincial architecture, mosques, 19th century, architectural historiography
CEREN KATİPOĞLU ÖZMEN
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES OF MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
2014