List of Figures and Appendices vii Note on Transliteration, Pronunciation, Spelling and Names xv Acknowledgements xvii 1 Introduction: Royal Ottomaii Women as Architectural Patrons 1 2 From Concubine to Valide: Turban Sultan's Rise through the Harem Hierarchy 17 The Early Life and Training of Hadice Turhan Sultan 17 A Valide Sultan 28 Daily Life in the Harem 31 Administrative Duties 39 3 Ottoman Women/Other Women 55 Connected Worlds: Letters, Diplomacy, Gifts and Slaves 56 Inventing Traditions: Appropriating the "Women Worthies" 65 Life Stages 77 Financing Patronage 94 Visibility: Bodies, Ceremonial, Synecdoche 101 4 Defending the Dardanelles: The Fortresses of Seddiilbahir and Kumkale and the Legacy of Turhan Sultan 107 Gendered Architecture: The Fortress as Imperial Icon 115 The Fortifications on the Dardanelles: Ancient and Ottoman Legacies 123 Building on the Dardanelles 127 The Fortresses of Seddiilbahir and Kumkale: The Present Condition 135 Seddulbahir 145 Kumkale 152 Charting the Changes: The Legacy of Turhan Sultan's Fortifications 162 Reconstructing the Earliest Phase: Seddulbahir and Kumkale in the Seventeenth Century 165 The Early Data 167 The Aftermath of World War I 176 Conclusion 180 vi Ottoman Women Builders 5 Building in the Capital: The Yeni VaMde Mosque Complex of Istanbul 187 Eminonu: A Problematic Site 189 Building the Yeni Valide Mosque: The First Phase 193 Completing the Yeni Valide Mosque Project: The Second Phase 195 The Yeni Valide Mosque and its Components 203 Conclusion 256 6 The Pillar of the States Architecture, Agency and Self-Representation 269 The Pillar of the State 274 Glossary 285 Archival Bibliography 289 Bibliography 295 Index 32J PPN: 262136368 Titel: Ottoman women builders / the architectural patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan ; Lucienne Thys-Senocak. - Ashgate Aldershot [u.a.] 2006 ISBN: 0-7546-3310-1(hbk.) hbk.£50.00 : CIP entry (Nov.); 978-0-7546-3310-5 Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund.