Image of the Modern Ottoman Sultan

Visibility, Identity, and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73306-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 193 mm x 260 mm

Reihe: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World

This book investigates the complex relationships among images of the Ottoman sultan – including portrait paintings, prints, and photographs – and ideas surrounding the modernisation of the Empire over the course of the dynamic nineteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Terndrup, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Menschen, Häusliches Umfeld

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Note on Language and Transcription

Note on Web Sources

Abbreviations

Introduction 1 Ottoman Modernisation and Global Trends 2 Incorporating New Models: Press and Place 3 Sultans’ Portraits in Historical Perspective 4 Likeness, Gaze, and Power 5 Chapter Summaries 6 Conclusion

1 Dynamism, Diplomacy, and Distribution 1 Paper Support and Design Dissemination 2 Dynastic Representation during Political Volatility 3 The “Auspicious Event” and the Sultan’s New Look 4 Difference as Progress: “Double Mahmuds” 5 Courtly and Commercial Exchange 6 Conclusion

2 “Dazzlingly Brilliant”: Precious Miniatures 1 Award Form and Its Accrual of Symbolic Value 2 Tokens of Friendship and Loyalty in Non-Ottoman History 3 The Mahmuds Multiply 4 Ceremonial Bestowals: The Sultan’s Inner Circle 5 Controversy and Permissibility 6 Rewarding Loyalty? 7 The Sultan: Friend of the King 8 The Sultan: Friend of the Czar 9 Continuities and Changes in the Mid-Century 10 Conclusion

3 “Beautiful,” “Wonderful” Wall-Hanging Works 1 A Report from the Barracks 2 Ritual and Repetition in Portrait-Inauguration Ceremonies 3 Embodiment and Image in the Early Nineteenth Century 4 Display at Sea: Mahmudiye and Nusretiye 5 Display at School: Maçka 6 Display at the DivanHane 7 Display Abroad 8 Display in the Second Part of the Century 9 Conclusion

4 The Nisan in Ottoman-Balkan Princely Portraits 1 The Embedded Miniature 2 Sartorial Symbolism and Legitimacy 3 The Case of Serbia 4&e

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Terndrup, Ph.D. (2021), Boston University, is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware. She has also taught at Northeastern University, where she developed a course in Dynamism and Diversity in Islamic Visual Cultures.