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The Ottomans and the Early Modern World Encounters in the Age of the Renaissance, 1400-1600
9 sessions
To insist on an exclusively Florentine, Italian, or European rinascita or cultural rebirth would fail to appreciate the cultural interconnectedness of the early modern period. In contrast, this course explores the early modern Ottoman civilisation as part of a larger Renaissance narrative. The course celebrates the global nature of the Renaissance through a cross-cultural paradigm and demonstrates the shared heritage of the early modern Mediterranean civilisations, especially between Italy and the Ottoman Empire by presenting a more balanced version of the historical and cultural contexts of the sixteenth-century Mediterranean. Furthermore, the visual representations of the 'Other' on both sides of the cultural divide signifies the interconnectedness of early modern Islamic East and Christian West. By reorienting the purview, a greater understanding of the value of less dominant centres can be achieved, ultimately broa
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The Production of the Sehname-i Selim Han
the production of the ehnme-i( selm ,n 263 EMİNE FETVACI THE PRODUCTION OF THE ŞEHNĀMEİ SELĪM ,ĀN This article was the winner of the 2007 Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize, awarded by the Historians of Islamic Art Association. Recent scholarship on the arts of the book from the Islamic world has been moving towards an examination of illustrated manuscripts as whole books, considering their aesthetic and intellectual components, as well as the contexts of their production and use.1 Particular attention has also been paid to the workshops in which books and albums were produced and stored: the kitābkhāna (book house) of the Persian-speaking world, or the na66āş8āne (designers’ house) of the Ottomans.2 So far, archival documents, albums, treatises, and other workshop materials have been much more informative on the making of illustrated books than have the manuscripts themselves.3 Notable exceptions include the Haft Awrang of Jami prepared for the Safavid prince Sultan Ibrahim Mirza between 1556 and 1565; its multiple colophons and complicated
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