Death in Istanbul : death and its rituals in Ottoman-Islamic culture / Edhem Eldem.

Main entry:

Eldem, Edhem.

Title & Author:

Death in Istanbul : death and its rituals in Ottoman-Islamic culture / Edhem Eldem.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Istanbul : Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre, 2005.

Description:

299 pages : illustrations (some. co.), facsimiles, color maps ; 28 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Death in Istanbul / Death and its rituals in Ottoman-Islamic culture", Nov.16, 2004-Mar. 31, 2005, organised by the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-193) and index.

Summary:

Death and the city -- Death in Ottoman-Islamic culture -- Dealing with death -- Empire and death -- The birth of the Ottoman tombstone -- The evolution of the epitaph -- Women -- The uses of gravestones -- Playing with form -- Crime and punishment -- Disease and death -- Suicide -- Monumental obsession -- Aspects of modernity -- Death Alla Franca -- State, nation and death.

ISBN:

9759812525 (paperback)
9789759812522 (paperback)

Subject:

Funeral rites and ceremonies Turkey Istanbul History.
Islamic funeral rites and ceremonies.
Islamic sepulchral monuments Turkey Istanbul History.
Cemeteries Turkey Istanbul History.
Mausoleums Turkey Istanbul History.
Architecture, Ottoman Turkey Istanbul.
Islamic architecture Turkey Istanbul.
Funérailles Rites et cérémonies Turquie İstanbul Histoire.
Funérailles Rites et cérémonies islamiques.
Monuments funéraires islamiques Turquie İstanbul Histoire.
Cimetières Turquie İstanbul Histoire.
Mausolées Turquie İstanbul Histoire.
Architecture ottomane Turquie İstanbul.
Architecture islamique Turquie İstanbul.
Architecture, Ottoman
Buildings
Cemeteries
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Islamic architecture
Islamic sepulchral monuments
Mausoleums
Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Istanbul (Turkey) Buildings, structures, etc.
Empire ottoman Histoire.
Turkey
Turkey Istanbul

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
History

Added entries:

Osmanlı Bankası. Arşiv ve Araştırma Merkezi.

Death and its rituals in Ottoman-Islamic culture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246745
Call No.: NB1803.T8 E4 2005
Status: Available

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