Books by Suzan Yalman
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This edited volume explores the dynamic relationship between the Friday mosque and the Islamic city, addressing the traditional topics through a fresh new lens and offering a critical examination of each case study in its own spatial, urban, and socio-cultural context. While these two well-known themes—concepts that once defined the field—have been widely studied by historians of Islamic architecture and urbanism, this compilation specifically addresses the functional and spatial ambiguity or liminality between these spaces.
Instead of addressing the Friday mosque as the central signifier of the Islamic city, this collection provides evidence that there was (and continues to be) variety in the way architectural borders became fluid in and around Friday mosques across the Islamic world, from Cordoba to Jerusalem and from London to Lahore. By historicizing different cases and exploring the way human agency, through ritual and politics, shaped the physical and social fabric of the city, this volume challenges the generalizing and reductionist tendencies in earlier scholarship.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A. Hilal Uğurlu and Suzan Yalman, Introduction
Section I: Spatial Liminalities: Walls, Enclosures, and Beyond
Susana Calvo Capilla, Liminal Spaces in the Great Mosque of Cordoba: Urban Meaning and Politico-Liturgical Practices
Mehreen Chida-Razvi, Lahore’s Badshahi Masjid: Spatial Interactions of the Sacred and the Secular
Fadi Ragheb, City as Liminal Space: Islamic Pilgrimage and Holy Sites in Jerusalem During the Mamluk Period 75
Section II: Creating New Destinations, Constructing New Sacreds
Suzan Yalman, Sanctifying Konya: The Thirteenth-Century Transformation of the Seljuk Friday Mosque into a ‘House of God’
Farshid Emami, Inviolable Thresholds, Blessed Palaces, and Holy Friday Mosques: The Sacred Topography of Safavid Isfahan
Abbey Stockstill, From the Kutubiyya to Tinmal: The Sacred Direction in Mu’minid Performance
Section III: Liminality and Negotiating Modernity
A. Hilâl Uğurlu, Perform Your Prayers in Mosques!: Changing Spatial and Political Relations in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul
May Farhat, Urban Morphology and Sacred Space: The Mashhad Shrine During the Late Qajar and Pahlavi Periods
Nebahat Avcıoğlu, Towards a New Typology of Modern and Contemporary Mosque in Europe, including Russia and Turkey
* The Friday Mosque in the City: Liminality, Ritual, and Politics is a part of the Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East series of Intellect Books, edited by Mohammad Gharipour and Christiane Gruber. (https://www.intellectbooks.com/critical-studies-in-architecture-of-the-middle-east)
Journal Articles and Book Sections by Suzan Yalman
Ortaçağ Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022
Öz-On dokuzuncu yüzyılda Osmanlı Devleti'nde "âsâr-ı atîka" olarak bilinen eski eserler, 1869 ve ... more Öz-On dokuzuncu yüzyılda Osmanlı Devleti'nde "âsâr-ı atîka" olarak bilinen eski eserler, 1869 ve 1874'ten sonra, 1884 yılında yeni bir Âsârı Atîka Nizamnamesi ile daha kapsamlı bir şekilde korunmaya alınmıştı. Daha sonra, 1889 yılında Müze-i Hümayun Nizamnamesi çıkartılmış ve 1899 yılında da Konya Âsâr-ı Atîka Müzesi Anadolu'da Müze-i Hümayun'un ilk şubesi olarak açılmıştı. Bu gelişmeler Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun modernleşme çabalarının önemli bir kesitiydi ve vilayetlerdeki eserleri korumak için Osmanlı valileri yetkilendirilmekteydi. Nizamnamelerdeki değişikliklerden sonra müzenin açılışına kadar geçen on beş yılda Konya'daki süreç koruma anlayışı açısından nasıl ilerlemişti? Bu çerçevede bir vaka örneği olarak şehrin Ortaçağ surlarının akıbeti önem taşımaktadır. Örneğin, bir yandan Konya'daki eski eserler koruma altına alınırken, diğer yandan şehrin on üçüncü yüzyıldan kalma meşhur Selçuklu surları yık(tır)ılıyordu. Çelişkili görünen bu durumun bir açıklaması olabilir miydi? Elimizdeki yazılı kaynaklar, özellikle surların akıbeti konusunda yeterli bilgi içermemektedir. Ancak, yeni bir teknoloji olan fotoğraf, o dönemdeki gelişmelere tanıklık edilebilmesi açısından önem taşır. Bu makale, Konya'nın on dokuzuncu yüzyıl sonundaki kültür tarihine ve surlarının akıbetine, o yıllarda çekilmiş ve özellikle surlarda bir friz olarak sergilenen bazı devşirme rölyeflerin fotoğrafları aracılığıyla ışık tutmayı hedefler.
Convivium, 2021
In the thirteenth-century city walls of Seljuk Konya, a prominent example of spolia – two reused ... more In the thirteenth-century city walls of Seljuk Konya, a prominent example of spolia – two reused sarcophagus panels once set into the northern walls – serves as a case study. By chance, the material evidence surfaced after publication of an article on the textual descriptions of this alto relievo in nineteenth-century European travel accounts, when a late-Ottoman photograph of the left panel came to light. After reviewing the visual and textual sources, this article discusses how pursuing the provenance led to the whereabouts of the remains today. The discovery of the actual sarcophagus fragments enables reassessment of the sources and inquiry into layers of translation and meaning. Although these works are now displayed as Roman artifacts illustrating the myth of Achilles on Scyros and are thereby stripped of their afterlife in the Konya walls, they compare with reused sarcophagi known from Ephesus or Nicaea. In the case of the Seljuk capital, how were the panels understood when embedded in the walls? Their conspicuous placement indicates a particular prominence given to them. While difficult to pin down given the paucity of sources and multicultural context of Anatolia, a number of semiotic readings are suggested for their reuse. Perhaps what contributed to their magnetism and resonance in the thirteenth century and beyond was their capacity for multivalent meanings and appeal to a diverse range of audiences.
The Friday Mosque in the City: Liminality, Ritual, and Politics, ed. A. H. Uğurlu and S. Yalman, Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East Series (Intellect Books, 2020).
The Friday Mosque in the City: Liminality, Ritual, and Politics, 2020
Tarih Boyunca Anadolu’da Hayırseverlik. Bildiriler. Birinci Uluslararası Suna ve İnan Kıraç Akdeniz Uygarlıkları Sempozyumu, Mart 26–29, Antalya. ed. O. Tekin, C. H. Roosevelt and E. Akyürek
Proceedings. The First Suna and İnan Kıraç Symposium on Mediterranean Civilizations, March 26–29, Antalya. ed. O. Tekin, C. H. Roosevelt and E. Akyürek , 2020
Sacred Spaces and Urban Networks, 2019
Kutsal mekanlar ve Kentsel Ağlar , 2019
Sacred Spaces and Urban Networks, ed. S. Yalman and A. H. Uğurlu (Istanbul: ANAMED, 2019), 119–40.
Kutsal Mekanlar ve Kentsel Ağlar, ed. A. H. Uğurlu and S. Yalman (Istanbul: ANAMED, 2019), 119–40.
On üçüncü yüzyılın başlarına tarihlenen bir kayıtta, Selçuklu dönemi Konya'sının, İslam dünyasınd... more On üçüncü yüzyılın başlarına tarihlenen bir kayıtta, Selçuklu dönemi Konya'sının, İslam dünyasında Elâtun olarak bilinen antik çağ filozofu mezarına ev sahipliği yaptığı ve bu mezarın Cuma camiinin yanındaki bir kilisede yer aldığı aktarılır. Suriyeli seyyah Ali bin Ebû Bekir el-Herevî (ö. MS 1215), günümüz gezi rehberlerinin Ortaçağ versiyonu olan meşhur hac rehberinde şöyle der: "Konya (Kûniya) şehrinde, Cuma Camii'nin yanındaki kilisede bilge Elâtun'un kabri (kabr alat̄n al-h ̣akīm) yer alır." 1 Bizans döneminde, kilise Kapadokyalı ilk kilise babalarından Amphilokios adlı bir piskoposun mezarının bulunduğu makamı teşkil etmekteydi. 2 Selçuklular şehri Bizans İkonium'undan Konya'ya dönüştürerek başkentleri yaptığında, Cuma camilerini bu kilisenin yanına inşa etmişlerdi. Selçukluların tüm kiliseleri camiye dönüştürdüğüne inanılsa da, el-Herevî'nin açıklaması durumun böyle olmadığını belgeler. 3 Kilisenin korunmuş olmasından daha da çarpıcı olan diğer bir durum ise Platon'un mezarının bu yapıda yer aldığına inanılmasıdır! 4 Görünen o ki tarihin bir noktasında kilise, Hıristiyan kilise babası Aziz Amphilokios yerine antik çağ filozofu Platon'la ilişkilendirilmeye başlanmıştır. 5 Semayi Eyice (1922-* Bu makalenin oluşmasına katkı sağlayan ufuk açıcı yorumları ve önerileri için A. Hilâl Uğurlu, Haris heodorelis-Rigas ve Kaan Okurer'e teşekkürlerimi sunarım. Ayrıca görsellerle alakalı konular ve izinlerle ilgili olarak Alev Berberoğlu, Caner Cangül, Gertrude Bell Arşivleri'nden Gianluca Foschi ve Harvard Üniversitesi'nden András Riedlmayer ve Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg'a minnettarım. 1 Alī ibn Abī Bakr al-Harawī, A Lonely Wayfarer's Guide to Pilgrimage (Kītab al-ishārāt ilā ma'rifat al-ziyārāt), çev.
Spolia Reincarnated: Afterlives of Objects, Materials, and Spaces in Anatolia from Antiquity to the Ottoman Era, ed. I. Jevtić and S. Yalman (Istanbul: ANAMED), 2018
Devşirme Malzemenin (Spolia) Yeniden Doğuşu: Antikçağ’dan Osmanlı’ya Anadolu’da Objelerin, Materyallerin ve Mekanların Sonraki Yaşamları. ed. S. Yalman and I. Jevtić (Istanbul: ANAMED), 2018
Armenia: Art, Religion, and Trade in the Middle Ages, ed. H.C. Evans (New York: MMA), 2018
Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500, ed. R. Goshgarian and P. Blessing (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), 2017
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Books by Suzan Yalman
This edited volume explores the dynamic relationship between the Friday mosque and the Islamic city, addressing the traditional topics through a fresh new lens and offering a critical examination of each case study in its own spatial, urban, and socio-cultural context. While these two well-known themes—concepts that once defined the field—have been widely studied by historians of Islamic architecture and urbanism, this compilation specifically addresses the functional and spatial ambiguity or liminality between these spaces.
Instead of addressing the Friday mosque as the central signifier of the Islamic city, this collection provides evidence that there was (and continues to be) variety in the way architectural borders became fluid in and around Friday mosques across the Islamic world, from Cordoba to Jerusalem and from London to Lahore. By historicizing different cases and exploring the way human agency, through ritual and politics, shaped the physical and social fabric of the city, this volume challenges the generalizing and reductionist tendencies in earlier scholarship.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A. Hilal Uğurlu and Suzan Yalman, Introduction
Section I: Spatial Liminalities: Walls, Enclosures, and Beyond
Susana Calvo Capilla, Liminal Spaces in the Great Mosque of Cordoba: Urban Meaning and Politico-Liturgical Practices
Mehreen Chida-Razvi, Lahore’s Badshahi Masjid: Spatial Interactions of the Sacred and the Secular
Fadi Ragheb, City as Liminal Space: Islamic Pilgrimage and Holy Sites in Jerusalem During the Mamluk Period 75
Section II: Creating New Destinations, Constructing New Sacreds
Suzan Yalman, Sanctifying Konya: The Thirteenth-Century Transformation of the Seljuk Friday Mosque into a ‘House of God’
Farshid Emami, Inviolable Thresholds, Blessed Palaces, and Holy Friday Mosques: The Sacred Topography of Safavid Isfahan
Abbey Stockstill, From the Kutubiyya to Tinmal: The Sacred Direction in Mu’minid Performance
Section III: Liminality and Negotiating Modernity
A. Hilâl Uğurlu, Perform Your Prayers in Mosques!: Changing Spatial and Political Relations in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul
May Farhat, Urban Morphology and Sacred Space: The Mashhad Shrine During the Late Qajar and Pahlavi Periods
Nebahat Avcıoğlu, Towards a New Typology of Modern and Contemporary Mosque in Europe, including Russia and Turkey
* The Friday Mosque in the City: Liminality, Ritual, and Politics is a part of the Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East series of Intellect Books, edited by Mohammad Gharipour and Christiane Gruber. (https://www.intellectbooks.com/critical-studies-in-architecture-of-the-middle-east)
Journal Articles and Book Sections by Suzan Yalman
This edited volume explores the dynamic relationship between the Friday mosque and the Islamic city, addressing the traditional topics through a fresh new lens and offering a critical examination of each case study in its own spatial, urban, and socio-cultural context. While these two well-known themes—concepts that once defined the field—have been widely studied by historians of Islamic architecture and urbanism, this compilation specifically addresses the functional and spatial ambiguity or liminality between these spaces.
Instead of addressing the Friday mosque as the central signifier of the Islamic city, this collection provides evidence that there was (and continues to be) variety in the way architectural borders became fluid in and around Friday mosques across the Islamic world, from Cordoba to Jerusalem and from London to Lahore. By historicizing different cases and exploring the way human agency, through ritual and politics, shaped the physical and social fabric of the city, this volume challenges the generalizing and reductionist tendencies in earlier scholarship.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A. Hilal Uğurlu and Suzan Yalman, Introduction
Section I: Spatial Liminalities: Walls, Enclosures, and Beyond
Susana Calvo Capilla, Liminal Spaces in the Great Mosque of Cordoba: Urban Meaning and Politico-Liturgical Practices
Mehreen Chida-Razvi, Lahore’s Badshahi Masjid: Spatial Interactions of the Sacred and the Secular
Fadi Ragheb, City as Liminal Space: Islamic Pilgrimage and Holy Sites in Jerusalem During the Mamluk Period 75
Section II: Creating New Destinations, Constructing New Sacreds
Suzan Yalman, Sanctifying Konya: The Thirteenth-Century Transformation of the Seljuk Friday Mosque into a ‘House of God’
Farshid Emami, Inviolable Thresholds, Blessed Palaces, and Holy Friday Mosques: The Sacred Topography of Safavid Isfahan
Abbey Stockstill, From the Kutubiyya to Tinmal: The Sacred Direction in Mu’minid Performance
Section III: Liminality and Negotiating Modernity
A. Hilâl Uğurlu, Perform Your Prayers in Mosques!: Changing Spatial and Political Relations in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul
May Farhat, Urban Morphology and Sacred Space: The Mashhad Shrine During the Late Qajar and Pahlavi Periods
Nebahat Avcıoğlu, Towards a New Typology of Modern and Contemporary Mosque in Europe, including Russia and Turkey
* The Friday Mosque in the City: Liminality, Ritual, and Politics is a part of the Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East series of Intellect Books, edited by Mohammad Gharipour and Christiane Gruber. (https://www.intellectbooks.com/critical-studies-in-architecture-of-the-middle-east)
11. ANAMED Yıllık Sempozyumu, arkeologlar, tarihçiler, sanat, mimarlık ve peyzaj tarihçilerini biraraya getirerek disiplinler arası sınırları kaldırmayı ve konuyu daha geniş ve farklı perspektiflerden incelemeyi hedefler. Aynı zamanda yeterli akademik ilgiyi çekememiş "kutsal" mekanlar ve bunların şehirle olan ilişkilerini anlamayı da amaçlamaktadır.
Sempozyum genel katılıma açıktır. İngilizce ve Türkçe simultane çeviri yapılacaktır.
Throughout history, the relationship between sacred spaces and the development of urban settlements has been a familiar phenomenon for almost all Anatolian civilizations. This symposium investigates various forms of "sacred" spaces and their spatial and sociocultural dynamics with the urban landscape in Anatolia from the eleventh century onward. Sites such as monasteries, dervish lodges, funerary buildings or sacred landscapes are of particular importance since they act as centers of gravity in the urban context. Of further significance is the mobility of people that populate these spaces and circulation of the artifacts perceived as sacred.
The 11th annual symposium of ANAMED aims to remove some of the disciplinary boundaries by bringing together archeologists, historians, art historians, historians of architecture and landscape in order to examine the material in more detail from a broader and different perspective. It also endeavors to understand other spaces deemed "sacred" that have attracted less scholarly attention and their relationship to the city.
The symposium is open to public and English -Turkish simultaneous translation will be provided.