The 1720 imperial circumcision celebrations in Istanbul : festivity and representation in the early eighteenth century / by Sinem Erdoğan İşkorkutan

• Superior document: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage Volume 71
• VerfasserIn: İşkorkutan, Sinem Erdoğan
• Sonstige: Ahmed III. Osmanisches Reich, Sultan 1673-1736
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Boston : Brill, [2021]
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage Volume 71
• Physical Description: xvii, 294 Seiten; Illustrationen
• Notes: Enthält Literaturangaben und Index
• ISBN: 9789004437555
• ac_no: AC16295545
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Sinem Erdoğan İşkorkutan

Introduction -- 1. Preparing the Festival -- 2. Staging the Festival -- 3. Representing the Festival -- Conclusions -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. "The 1720 Imperial Circumcision Celebrations in Istanbul offers the first holistic examination of an Ottoman public festival through an in-depth inquiry into different components of the 1720 event. Through a critical and combined analysis of the hitherto unknown archival sources along with the textual and pictorial narratives on the topic, the book vividly illustrates the festival's organizational details and preparations, its complex rites (related to consumption, exchange, competition), and its representation in court-commissioned illustrated festival books (sūrnāmes). To analyze all these phases in a holistic manner, the book employs an interdisciplinary approach by using the methodological tools of history, art history, and performance studies and thus, provides a new methodological and conceptual framework for the study of Ottoman celebrations"--