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Zusatztext '... an excellent example of a recent trend in Ottoman history toward scholarship so interdisciplinary as to defy easy categorisation. While the author is primarily a historian of art and architecture! her book is equally about religion! politics! social networks and historical narrative. The result is greater than the sum of its parts and represents a welcome step forward in the ongoing process of maturation that has been taking place in the field of Ottoman studies.' English Historical Review '... a lavishly illustrated study of the heterodox groups of early Ottoman Anatolia and their shrines.' Renaissance Quarterly 'Yürekli's approach to architecture and hagiography as interdependent projects of both religious and political nature has long been warranted. Also noteworthy is the author's success in binding together in an engaging! appealing! informative! and insightful manner architectural analysis and the study of the written record. This book also shows that the meticulous study of architecture and inscriptions does not dispense with the historian's commitment to source criticism of the textual record.' Der Islam 'Architecture and Hagiography in the Ottoman Empire is an in-depth look at how the shrines of Seyyid Gazi and Hacı BektaÅY! and their communities! functioned within a social! political! and architectural context. ... This insightful book is critical for libraries! architectural historians! early modernists! and scholars alike because it effectively demystifies architecture during the Ottoman period! in ways that will have references to many areas of study.' Sixteenth Century Journal Informationen zum Autor Zeynep Yurekli is University Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture at the The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford. Zusammenfassung Based on a thorough examination of buildings, inscriptions, archival documents and hagiographies, this book uncovers the political significance of Bektashi shrines in the Ottoman imperial age. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Legends and Shrines; Chapter 1 The Bektashis, their Shrines and the Ottomans; Chapter 2 The Hagiographic Framework; Chapter 3 The Remodelling of the Shrines; Chapter 4 Architecture and Meaning; Epilogue;...
