Bayt Farhi And The Sephardic Palaces Of Ottoman Damascus In The Late 18th And 19th Centuries

Author : Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis
Publisher : American Society of Overseas Research
ISBN 13 : 9780897571005
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bayt Farhi and the Sephardic Palaces of Ottoman Damascus in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries written by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and published by American Society of Overseas Research. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the largest and most important palatial houses of late 18th- and early 19th-century Damascus, Bayt Farhi belonged to the Farhi family, who served as financial administrators to successive Ottoman governors in Damascus and Acre. Illustrated with extensive colour photographs, plans, and reconstruction drawings, the book brings to life the home environment of the lost elite Sephardic community of Ottoman Damascus. It will be an important resource for those studying the architecture, history, and culture of Syria and the Ottoman Empire. Bayt Farhi's outstanding architecture and decoration is documented and presented in this first comprehensive analysis of it and Damascus's other prominent Sephadic mansions Matkab 'Anbar, Bayt Dahdah, Bayt Stambouli, and Bayt Lisbona. The Hebrew poetic inscriptions in these residences reveal how the Farhis and other leading Sephardic families perceived themselves and how they presented themselves to their own community and other Damascenes. A history of the Farhis and the Jews of Damascus provides the context for these houses, along with the architectural development of the monumental Damascene courtyard house.

Author : Boris Liebrenz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004505245
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arab Traders in Their Own Words written by Boris Liebrenz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The mostly Christian traders of the Syrian and Egyptian provinces lived through one of the most turbulent intersections of Ottoman and European imperial history

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004393145
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies commemorates the life and works of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905) as a scholar and consul in Berlin and Damascus. It also illustrates contemporary developments in manuscript collecting and Oriental studies.

Author : Ross Burns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755645308
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Syria through 40 Monuments written by Ross Burns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can a nation's archaeological treasures help explain its history, especially one as richly complex as Syria's? Ross Burns chooses 40 among Syria's outstanding range of sites, accompanied by over 200 colour illustrations, to take the reader through the tangled paths of this crossroads of the eastern Mediterranean where numerous world cultures intersected. Given the last 12 years of savage conflict, the author reports too on the plight of many of these monuments, addressing the common but unhelpful assumption that much of the country's archaeological treasures have been 'destroyed'. A better approach is to recognise that Syria's heritage can play a role in the country's recovery and cannot simply be declared a write-off. This is a history which tells us much about how Syria's mixture of traditions defy simplistic categorisation through modern definitions of cultures and identities.

Author : Katharine T. von Stackelberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190272341
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Housing the New Romans written by Katharine T. von Stackelberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last twenty years, reception studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the ways in which Classics has shaped modern Western culture, but very little attention has been directed toward the reception of classical architecture. Housing the New Romans: Architectual Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World addresses this gap by investigating ways in which appropriation and allusion facilitated the reception of Classical Greece and Rome through the requisition and redeployment of classicizing tropes to create neo-Antique sites of "dwelling" in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The volume, across nine essays, will cover both European and American iterations of place making, including Sir John Soanes' house in London, the Hôtel de Beauharnais in Paris, and the Getty Villa in California. By focusing on structures and places that are oriented towards private life-houses, hotels, clubs, tombs, and gardens-the volume directs the critical gaze towards diverse and complex sites of curatorial self-fashioning. The goal of the volume is to provide a multiplicity of interpretative frameworks (e.g. object-agency enchantment, hyperreality, memory-infrastructure) that may be applied to the study of architectural reception. This critical approach makes Housing the New Romans the first work of its kind in the emerging field of architectural and landscape reception studies and in the hitherto textually dominated field of classical reception.

Author : Dick Douwes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857715410
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ottomans in Syria written by Dick Douwes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2000-01-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ottoman state administered vast and complex territories and its main task was the maintenance of justice – _adalet_ – the key concept of government in the Ottoman view of society and state. Rulers who stepped beyond the bounds of the law were judged guilty of tyranny. By the late eighteenth century, this huge state was in decline, its capabilities were limited and its resources and manpower scarce. Consequently, the Ottoman Empire relied increasingly on a policy of coercion. In no province of the Empire was this more marked than in Syria. _The Ottomans in Syria_ examines the administration of the Syrian interior from 1785 to 1841 and shows how the Empire established independent local power bases and how their rule over the peasantry was based on oppression and extortion. This reached its apogee under the reformist governor of Egypt, Muhammad 'Alî Pasha, who rebelled against the Sultan and occupied all Syria. Dick Douwes investigates the local administration of the time, its political instability and factionalism, the oppressive nature of Ottoman taxation and the financial problems extending through the region and explores the emergence of military households. _The Ottomans in Syria_ will prove essential to historians of the Ottoman Empire and of the Middle East in general.

Author : İlber Ortaylı
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935295457
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private and Royal Life in the Ottoman Palace written by İlber Ortaylı and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topkapi Palace was the official and primary residence of the Ottoman sultans for almost four centuries of their 624 year reign. This illustrated guide to Topkapi Palace-the heart of a vast transcontinental empire until the mid-nineteenth century-explores Ottoman history, as it relates to specific sections of the palace. Ortayh, a famed Turkish historian and scholar, introduces the audience to the outer and inner sections of the palace as well as the family quarters, providing them with profound background information about their functions, architecture and decorations. His references to the palace customs, people, and particular events present the reader with a living history.

Author : Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823281043
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical New York written by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the rise of New York from the capital of an upstart nation to a global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman antiquity played a formative role in the development of the city’s art and architecture. This compilation of essays offers a survey of diverse reinterpretations of classical forms in some of New York’s most iconic buildings, public monuments, and civic spaces. Classical New York examines the influence of Greco-Roman thought and design from the Greek Revival of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through the late-nineteenth-century American Renaissance and Beaux Arts period and into the twentieth century’s Art Deco. At every juncture, New Yorkers looked to the classical past for knowledge and inspiration in seeking out new ways to cultivate a civic identity, to design their buildings and monuments, and to structure their public and private spaces. Specialists from a range of disciplines—archaeology, architectural history, art history, classics, and history— focus on how classical art and architecture are repurposed to help shape many of New York City’s most evocative buildings and works of art. Federal Hall evoked the Parthenon as an architectural and democratic model; the Pantheon served as a model for the creation of Libraries at New York University and Columbia University; Pennsylvania Station derived its form from the Baths of Caracalla; and Atlas and Prometheus of Rockefeller Center recast ancient myths in a new light during the Great Depression. Designed to add breadth and depth to the exchange of ideas about the place and meaning of ancient Greece and Rome in our experience of New York City today, this examination of post-Revolutionary art, politics, and philosophy enriches the conversation about how we shape space—be it civic, religious, academic, theatrical, or domestic—and how we make use of that space and the objects in it.

Author : Sabahattin Türkoğlu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789754790740
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Topkapi Palace written by Sabahattin Türkoğlu and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook to the Topkapi Palace and Museum in Istanbul, Turkey.

Author : Lydia Collins
Publisher : Shaare Hayim
ISBN 13 : 9780955298004
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sephardim of Manchester written by Lydia Collins and published by Shaare Hayim. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a sephardim of Manchester genealogy and history.