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Gardens In The Air: A Reexamination Of The Ottoman Tulip Age, Rachel R. Fry
Gardens In The Air: A Reexamination Of The Ottoman Tulip Age, Rachel R. Fry
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Scholars have long considered the “Tulip Age” to be a sort of Ottoman renaissance—a golden age initiated by the 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz and lasted until the Anti-Tulip Rebellion in 1730. However, recent scholarship has questioned the objectivity of the field’s founding historian, Ahmed Refik, who based his theory off of the twofold concepts of a marked increase in tulip culture and a movement toward westernization in the Ottoman Empire. Because of this shaky foundation, this research reexamines the debate from the beginning: the tulip’s connection to earlier Turkic arts and the actualities of Ottoman “modernization.” This perspective on the …
I Am A Yakhchal, Scott M. Shafer
I Am A Yakhchal, Scott M. Shafer
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A description of the history and function of a traditional Iranian ice house, known as a Yakhchal, as told through the eyes of one such ice house surviving into the present day.