Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

By Gülru Necipoğlu

Today the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul seems a haphazard aggregate of modest buildings no longer capable of conveying imperial power. Yet it is one of the most celebrated of all Islamic palaces. Gulru Necipoglu brings together largely unpublished sources, both written and visual, along with information derived from the architectural remains to uncover the processes through which the meaning of the palace was once produced. She relocates the Topkapi in its historical context, a context that included not only the circumstances of its patronage, but the complex interaction of cultural practices, ideologies, and social codes of recognition

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262140500
• ISBN13: 9780262140508
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.3" x 10.3"