The volume Monuments, patrons, contexts presents the proceedings
of a symposium held on June 27, 2008, at the Netherlands Institute in
Turkey in honour of the historian Machiel Kiel. Best known for his often
pioneering work on the Ottoman Balkans, the scope of the contributions
by friends and colleagues is as wide as the honouree’s lifework: Heath
Lowry discovers a hitherto unknown sultanic mosque from around 1400 in
the course of his fieldwork in Greece. Grigor Boykov finds already
vanished monuments on the basis of textual sources. Mariya Kiprovska,
similarly looking at monuments, brings to light a curious case of what
appears to be a “gazi-turned-saint”. Aziz Nazmi Shakir-Tash
ventures through the Ottoman Rhodopes, an old stonecutter’s notebook in
hand, and wonders about the earliest Ottoman monuments there. Suraiya
Faroqhi accompanies the 17th-century scholar Abdurrahman Hibri on the
hajj from his native Edirne and reviews his observations on architecture
and politics. Hedda Reindl-Kiel turns our attention to the 18th-century
reconstruction of Muslim infrastructure after the Venetian conquest of
the Morea on one hand, to the patronage of a palace eunuch on the other.
The topic of infrastructure, now from a Bulgarian perspective, is also
addressed by Stephen Lewis. Ilknur Kolay looks at building materials and
discerns a change in terminology in the 17th century. Kemal Kutgün
Eyüpgiller covers new ground with a study on 18th century military
architecture along the Bosporus. Maximilian Hartmuth and Zeynep Ahunbay
deal with the restoration and preservation of Ottoman monuments in
Bosnia, with one writing about the 1890s, the other about the
reconstruction of a historic mosque lost in the 1990s war. The research
articles are followed by the thus far most complete bibliography of
Kiel’s work.
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