Living in the Ottoman Realm. Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries

124 | Making Jerusalem Ottoman The Ottoman Frontiers The idea of the frontier (uç) has long been a focus of discussion in Ottoma ...

Singer | 125 populations. In eastern Anatolia, the Sunni Ottoman state attacked groups sym- pathetic to the Shiɇite Safavids in ...

126 | Making Jerusalem Ottoman was conquered only in 1522, Cyprus in 1571, and Crete in 1669, thus for a long time the coast was ...

Singer | 127 Mamluks left a thick stone belt of madrasas (colleges) and zaviyes, or khanaqahs (Sufi convents), encircling the pe ...

128 | Making Jerusalem Ottoman Numerous Christian sites continued to occupy prominent, mostly elevated locations in the city: th ...

Singer | 129 in Jerusalem. This peacetime urban conquest was achieved with new construc- tion as well as the appropriation of ex ...

130 | Making Jerusalem Ottoman to secure the holy city of Medina, contemporary with the construction of the Jerusalem fortificat ...

Figure 9.3 Sabil al-Wad, one of the fountains built by Sultan Süleyman, as it looks today. (Photograph by Nina Ergin.) ...

132 | Making Jerusalem Ottoman benefits of Ottoman rule were announced at eye level, unavoidable by everyone who passed through ...

Singer | 133 of Islam, achieved most importantly with the conquest of Mecca and Medina in the Hijaz but also with the conquest o ...

134 | Making Jerusalem Ottoman limits of the dense Muslim public building concentrated on and closer to the Haram. The imaret wa ...

Singer | 135 slopes of the Mount of Olives. The challenge here apparently had more of an eco- nomic than a cultural or political ...

136 | Making Jerusalem Ottoman remaining interstices, to remind the local population and foreign powers of the enduring Ottoman ...

 Ibrahim ibn Khidr al-Qaramani A Merchant and Urban Notable of Early Ottoman Aleppo Charles Wilkins The Ottoman conquest of th ...

138 | Ibrahim ibn Khidr al-Qaramani a larger process of Ottomanization. Their concern with physical infrastructure is most salie ...

Wilkins|139 dictionaries, his two-volume work Durr al-habab fi tarikh aɇyan Halab (Beloved pearls in the history of Aleppan nota ...

140 | Ibrahim ibn Khidr al-Qaramani does not necessarily make up for other personal failings, and indeed the effect of the virtu ...

Wilkins|141 al-Hanbali noted as the consummate skill of the architects and masons who built the structure. Upon hearing the news ...

142 | Ibrahim ibn Khidr al-Qaramani as fakhr al-tujjār, or “the pride of merchants.” In a few instances, the court scribe even u ...

Wilkins|143 with the law, this day the Fourth of Shawwal in the Year 961 of the Hijra [September 2, 1556]. In this context, Ib ...