ISBN |
9789756372395 (pbk.) |
Title |
Feeding people, feeding power : imarets in the Ottoman Empire / edited by Nina Ergin, Christoph K. Neumann, Amy Singer |
Publisher |
Istanbul : Eren, 2007 |
Physical desc. |
312 p. ; ill., maps, plans ; 24 cm. |
Note |
Comprised of articles based on the workshop, Feeding people, feeding power, held in Istanbul in October 2004 |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Contents |
Introduction / Nina Ergin, Christoph K. Neumann, Amy Singer. -- Mapping imarets / Amy Singer. -- Feeding the poor: the Rab'-i Rashidi imaret in Il-khanid Tabriz / Fariba Zarinebaf. -- Random musings on the origins of Ottoman charity: from Mekece to Bursa, İznik and beyond / Heath Lowry. -- Imarets, Islamization and urban development in Sarajevo, 1461-1604 / York Norman. -- Four provincial imarets in the Balkans and the sources about them / Machiel Kiel. -- For the sake of God alone? food distribution policies, takiyyas and imarets in early Ottoman Damascus / Astrid Meier. -- Taking care of imarets: repairs and renovations to the Atik Valide İmareti, Istanbul, circa 1600-1700 / Nina Ergin. -- Vakıf Taamhoran and Fodulahoran registers as archival sources for imarets / Kayhan Orbay. -- Food for feasts: cooking recipes in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Anatolian hostelries (imarets) / Suraiya Faroqhi. -- Kitchens of the Ottoman tekkes as reflections of the imarets in Sufi architecture / M. Baha Tanman. -- Feeding the hungry, clothing the naked: food and clothing endowments in sixteenth-century Istanbul / Stéphane Yerasimos. -- The Ottoman imperial kitchens as imarets / Zeynep Tarım-Ertuğ. -- The Atik Valide's endowment deed: a textual analysis / Pinar Kayaalp-Aktan. -- Remarks on the symbolism of Ottoman imarets / Christoph K. Neumann. |
Subject |
Soup kitchens -- Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 |
Charities -- Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 |
Charities -- Islamic countries |
Islamic architecture -- Middle East |
Architecture, Ottoman |
Food -- Social aspects |
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 |
Added name(s) |
Ergin, Nina ed. |
Neumann, Christoph K. 1962- ed. |
Singer, Amy ed. |