Название: A Study of Ottoman Narratives on Architecture: Text, Context, and Hermeneutics
Автор: Selen B. Morko?
Издательство: Academia Press
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 453
Размер: 15 MB
Язык: English

It is widely accepted that documents on Ottoman architects are rare and that little is known about the architectural practice in the Ottoman world. A group of texts that have appeared between sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, however, form an exception to this general assumption. While these texts have been cited and referred to in diverse previous studies on Ottoman architecture, they have not been the topic of a major interpretative approach before. A Study of Ottoman Narratives on Architecture: Text, Context and Hermeneutics is the first interpretive and comparative research monograph to feature these texts as its main theme. This is the first translation of these works that contextualizes and interprets their importance in English.