The Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem:  An Introduction

Robert Hillenbrand

 Includes color and black/white photos as well as numerous drawings $29.95

AlTajir World of Islam Trust ISBN 1901432091

This book is intended to serve as an easily accessible introduction to the architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem, which forms the backdrop to the world-famous sacred buildings, which are the goal of thousands of visitors every year. Most of the Ottoman public monuments were built for pious purposes, modest in scale but often richly ornamented. They include fountains, study cells, commemorative domed structures, open air mihrabs, minarets and Sufi convents, as well as grander enterprises like the encircling city walls and restorations of the Citadel and the Dome of the Rock. These buildings, like the pre-modern urban fabric into which they are so comfortably integrated, testify to the solid affection which Jerusalem has inspired in its Muslim citizens over the past five centuries.

About the Author:

Robert Hillenbrand is Professor of Islamic Arts at the University of Edinburgh. He has written numerous articles and books on Islamic art and architecture for a wider public and has co-edited—with Dr. Sylvia Auld—the multi-author 2-volume work Ottoman Jerusalem, The Living City 1517-1917 (London 2000), which offers a detailed survey of the Muslim city in Ottoman times.

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Ottoman Jerusalem:  The Living City 1517-1917

Over 1200 pages in two parts with 16 pages in full color, 2 fold out maps

Over 500 plans, drawings, black and white photographs, both parts fully bound with in a slip case

ISBN 1901435032

Price $225.00

AlTajir World of Islam Trust

 The Ottoman empire dominated the Mediterranean and the Middle East from the 16th to the 18th centuries until the Europeans began to assert power in the region. However, the Ottomans continued to control much of the region until after their defeat in the First World War.

Within the land of Palestine, the city of Jerusalem occupied a special position. The Ottomans inherited a city which for Muslims, feature the exceptional presence of the Dome of the Rock and the rich inheritance of buildings from the Mamluk period. However, for visitors today much of the aspect of the Old City, dominated by its magnificent walls, is that created during the period of Ottoman rule.

This extensive and detailed work presents for the first time a wide-ranging study of various facets of the Ottoman city. A wealthy of socio-historical research is supplemented by an important architectural survey. Under the direction of Professor Robert Hillenbrand, a team of internationally acknowledged academics and specialists have produced an erudite corpus of material which will serve as a standard work on the subject for the foreseeable future and which will serve as a superb complementary volume to WIFT’s acclaimed Mamluk.

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