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Feeding people, feeding power: imarets in the Ottoman Empire

Feeding people, feeding power: imarets in the Ottoman Empire
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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.
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