Seljuk Architecture in Representation and Use: from the late Ottoman Empire to the early Turkish Republic

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2024-4-17

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Lynch Köycü, Michelle

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The purpose of this study is to reinvestigate the formative years of Seljuk architecture’s discursive development, taking into account its emergence as a subject of academic and popular discourse during the transition from the Late Ottoman Empire to the early Republican Period. Endeavoring to move beyond depictions of this occurrence as a purely textual phenomenon deriving from the largely intellectualized ‘historiography wars’ waged in the first decades of the 20th century, this dissertation employs a longer historical view as it traces and assesses the visual, textual, and material engagements with the “Seljuk architecture of Anatolia” from the 19th into the first half of the 20th century. Reflecting the geographical, temporal, and typological parameters of what was then considered beneath the banner of ‘Seljuk architecture,’ this study implements a ‘scale’ of use in its evaluation of seventeen sites as it inquires how architectural loss (Kılıçarslan II Pavilion, Antalya City walls, Konya City Walls), disuse (Evdir Han, Incir Han, Susuz Han, Sahip Ata Tas Medrese), continuity of historical use (Esrefoglu Mosque, tomb of Hüdavent Hatun), and partial (Yivli Minare Complex, Mahperi ‘Huand’ Hatun Complex, Arslanhane Complex) and full adaptation (Mevlana Complex, Tokat Gök Medrese, Erzurum Çifte Minareli Medrese, Ishakli Han, Amasya Gök Medrese) interacted with the modern meaning-making processes undertaken by networks of ‘narrators,’ both domestically and internationally.

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Seljuk Architecture, Late Ottoman architectural historiography, early Republican historiography, representation of architecture, architectural heritage

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/109184

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis