Cities and Saints: Sufism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities and Saints: Sufism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia write by . This book was released on 2003. Cities and Saints: Sufism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Heritage of Edirne in Ottoman and Turkish Times
The Heritage of Edirne in Ottoman and Turkish Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Heritage of Edirne in Ottoman and Turkish Times write by Birgit Krawietz. This book was released on 2019-12-16. The Heritage of Edirne in Ottoman and Turkish Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modern scholarship has not given Edirne the attention it deserves regarding its significance as one of the capitals of the Ottoman Empire. This edited volume offers a reinterpretation of Edirne’s history from Early Ottoman times to recent periods of the Turkish Republic. Presently, disconnections and discontinuities introduced by the transition from empire to nation state still characterize the image of the city and the historiography about it. In contrast, this volume examines how the city engages in the forming, deflecting and creative appropriation of its heritage, a process that has turned Edirne into a UNESCO heritage hotspot. A closer historical analysis demonstrates the dissonances and contradictions that these different interpretations and uses of heritage produce. From the beginning, Edirne was shaped by its connectivity and relationality to other places, above all to Istanbul. This perspective is employed at many different levels, e.g., with regard to its population, institutions, architecture, infrastructures and popular culture, but also regarding the imaginations Edirne triggered. In sum, this multi-disciplinary volume boosts urban history beyond Istanbul and offers new insight into Ottoman and Turkish connectivities from the vantage point of certain key moments of Edirne’s history.
Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism
Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism write by Esra Çizmeci. This book was released on 2023-11-10. Performing Post-Tariqa Sufism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice and philosophy recognised as the inner dimension of Islam) in a variety of private, semi-public, public, secular and sacred urban spaces in present-day Turkey. Through extensive field research in minority Sufi communities, this book investigates how devotees of specific orders maintain, adapt, mobilise, and empower their beliefs and values through embodied acts of their Sufi followers. Using an ethnographic methodology and theories derived from performance studies, Esra Çizmeci examines the multiple ways in which the post-tariqa Mevlevi and Rifai practice is formed in present-day Turkey, such as through the authority of the spiritual teacher; the individual and collective performance of Sufi rituals; nefs (self) training; and, most importantly, the practice of Sufi doctrines in everyday life through the production of sacred spaces. Drawing on the theories of performance, she examines how the Sufi way of living and spaces are created anew in the process of each devotee’s embodied action. This book is informed by theories in performance studies, anthropology, religious studies, and cultural studies and places current Sufi practices in a historical perspective.
The Afterlife of the Roman City
The Afterlife of the Roman City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Afterlife of the Roman City write by Hendrik W. Dey. This book was released on 2014-11-17. The Afterlife of the Roman City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a new and surprising perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (third to ninth centuries AD). It suggests that the tenacious persistence of leading cities across most of the Roman world is due, far more than previously thought, to the persistent inclination of kings, emperors, caliphs, bishops, and their leading subordinates to manifest the glory of their offices on an urban stage, before crowds of city dwellers. Long after the dissolution of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, these communal leaders continued to maintain and embellish monumental architectural corridors established in late antiquity, the narrow but grandiose urban itineraries, essentially processional ways, in which their parades and solemn public appearances consistently unfolded. Hendrik W. Dey's approach selectively integrates urban topography with the actors who unceasingly strove to animate it for many centuries.
Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s
Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s write by Jackson Cailah Jackson. This book was released on 2020-09-04. Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between the Mongol invasions in the mid-13th century and the rise of the Ottomans in the late 14th century, the Lands of Rum were marked by instability and conflict. Despite this, a rich body of illuminated manuscripts from the period survives, explored here in this extensively illustrated volume. Meticulously analysing 15 beautifully decorated Arabic and Persian manuscripts, including Qur'ans, mirrors-for-princes, historical chronicles and Sufi works, Cailah Jackson traces the development of calligraphy and illumination in late medieval Anatolia. She shows that the central Anatolian city of Konya, in particular, was a dynamic centre of artistic activity and that local Turcoman princes, Seljuk bureaucrats and Mevlevi dervishes all played important roles in manuscript production and patronage.
