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Ottoman Women Builders - The Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan (Paperback)
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Ottoman Women Builders - The Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan (Paperback)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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Examined here is the historical figure and architectural patronage
of Hadice Turhan Sultan, the young mother of the Ottoman Sultan
Mehmed IV, who for most of the latter half of the seventeenth
century shaped the political and cultural agenda of the Ottoman
court. Captured in Russia at the age of twelve, she first served
the reigning sultan's mother in Istanbul. She gradually rose
through the ranks of the Ottoman harem, bore a male child to Sultan
Ibrahim, and came to power as a valide sultan, or queen mother, in
1648. It was through her generous patronage of architectural
works-including a large mosque, a tomb, a market complex in the
city of Istanbul and two fortresses at the entrance to the
Dardanelles-that she legitimated her new political authority as a
valide and then attempted to support that of her son. Central to
this narrative is the question of how architecture was used by an
imperial woman of the Ottoman court who, because of customary and
religious restrictions, was unable to present her physical self
before her subjects' gaze. In lieu of displaying an iconic image of
herself, as Queen Elizabeth and Catherine de Medici were able to
do, Turhan Sultan expressed her political authority and religious
piety through the works of architecture she commissioned.
Traditionally historians have portrayed the role of
seventeenth-century royal Ottoman women in the politics of the
empire as negative and de-stabilizing. But Thys-Senocak, through
her examination of these architectural works as concrete
expressions of legitimate power and piety, shows the traditional
framework to be both sexist and based on an outdated paradigm of
decline. Thys-Senocak's research on Hadice Turhan Sultan's two
Ottoman fortresses of SeddA1/4lbahir and Kumkale improves in a
significant way our understanding of early modern fortifications in
the eastern Mediterranean region and will spark further research on
many of the Ottoman fortifications built in the area. Plans and
elevations of the fortresses are published and analysed here for
the first time. Based on archival research, including letters
written by the queen mother, many of which are published here for
the first time, and archaeological fieldwork, her work is also
informed by recent theoretical debates in the fields of art
history, cultural history and gender studies.
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