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Buildings of Commemoration in Medieval Anatolia: The Funerary Complexes of Ṣāḥib ʿAṭā Fakhr al-Dīn ʿAlī and Māhperī Khātūn

Buildings of Commemoration in Medieval Anatolia: The Funerary Complexes of Ṣāḥib ʿAṭā Fakhr... AbstractThis article presents two seventh/thirteenth-century Islamic funerary complexes located in Anatolia (roughly today's Turkey) in the context of multi-functional ensembles with a mausoleum enclosed within the larger structure. Such monuments, although quite numerous, are poorly understood in terms of their relationship to Islamic funerary practice. The case studies at the centre of this article, the Ṣāḥib ʿAṭā Complex in Konya, built between 656/1258 and 684/1285, and the Māhperī Khātūn Complex in Kayseri, begun in 635/1237-38, are two funerary complexes that allow for an analysis of patronage, gender, the placement of the body (or bodies) of the deceased and spatial conception in these monuments. The article discusses the structural features of the two case studies, their patrons and inscription programmes in order to analyse how these architectural ensembles were used to frame, encase and protect the burials. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

Buildings of Commemoration in Medieval Anatolia: The Funerary Complexes of Ṣāḥib ʿAṭā Fakhr al-Dīn ʿAlī and Māhperī Khātūn

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Buildings of Commemoration in Medieval Anatolia: The Funerary Complexes of Ṣāḥib ʿAṭā Fakhr al-Dīn ʿAlī and Māhperī Khātūn

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AbstractThis article presents two seventh/thirteenth-century Islamic funerary complexes located in Anatolia (roughly today's Turkey) in the context of multi-functional ensembles with a mausoleum enclosed within the larger structure. Such monuments, although quite numerous, are poorly understood in terms of their relationship to Islamic funerary practice. The case studies at the centre of this article, the Ṣāḥib ʿAṭā Complex in Konya, built between...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2015 Society for the Medieval Mediterranean
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1473-348X
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0950-3110
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10.1080/09503110.2015.1102494
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AbstractThis article presents two seventh/thirteenth-century Islamic funerary complexes located in Anatolia (roughly today's Turkey) in the context of multi-functional ensembles with a mausoleum enclosed within the larger structure. Such monuments, although quite numerous, are poorly understood in terms of their relationship to Islamic funerary practice. The case studies at the centre of this article, the Ṣāḥib ʿAṭā Complex in Konya, built between 656/1258 and 684/1285, and the Māhperī Khātūn Complex in Kayseri, begun in 635/1237-38, are two funerary complexes that allow for an analysis of patronage, gender, the placement of the body (or bodies) of the deceased and spatial conception in these monuments. The article discusses the structural features of the two case studies, their patrons and inscription programmes in order to analyse how these architectural ensembles were used to frame, encase and protect the burials.

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Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Taylor & Francis

Published: Sep 2, 2015

Keywords: Architecture – religious / Islam / eastern Mediterranean; Ikonion/Konya; Konya; Turkey; Kayseri; Turkey; Anatolia – architecture; Rūm (sultanate) – architecture; Burials – Muslim burials; Patronage; architectural – in Turkey

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