The women who built the Ottoman world : female patronage and the architectural legacy of Gülnuş Sultan /
At the beginning of the 18th Century, the Ottoman Empire remained the grandest and most powerful of Middle Eastern Empires. This book reveals the empire's role of powerful women, often the head of the harem, or wives or mothers of Sultans. These educated and discerning patrons left a great arr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris : Published in association with the Barakat Trust,
[2017]
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| Series: | Library of Ottoman studies ;
v. 60. |
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| Summary: | At the beginning of the 18th Century, the Ottoman Empire remained the grandest and most powerful of Middle Eastern Empires. This book reveals the empire's role of powerful women, often the head of the harem, or wives or mothers of Sultans. These educated and discerning patrons left a great array of buildings across the Ottoman lands, opulent, lavish and powerful palaces and mausoleums, but also essential works for ordinary citizens, such as bridges and waterworks. |
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| Physical Description: | xxvi, 325 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781784539269 1784539260 |