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Looking for Urban Agency in a City of Memorials: Tomb Towers of Late-Thirteenth-Century Ahlat. Medieval Worlds|Urban Agencies: Reframing Anatolian and Caucasian Cities (13th-14th Centuries) & Movement and Mobility in the Medieval Mediterranean: Changing Perspectives from Late Antiquity to the Long-Twelfth Century, II - Volume 14. 2021 medieval worlds Volume 14. 2021
| العنوان: | Looking for Urban Agency in a City of Memorials: Tomb Towers of Late-Thirteenth-Century Ahlat. Medieval Worlds|Urban Agencies: Reframing Anatolian and Caucasian Cities (13th-14th Centuries) & Movement and Mobility in the Medieval Mediterranean: Changing Perspectives from Late Antiquity to the Long-Twelfth Century, II - Volume 14. 2021 medieval worlds Volume 14. 2021 |
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| المصدر: | http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/9172-8. |
| بيانات النشر: | oeaw |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | Austrian Academy of Sciences: epub.oeaw |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Ahlat, Lake Van, Ilkhanate, Islamization, Tomb towers,Medieval Studies |
| الوصف: | In the medieval period, the city of Ahlat was an important urban center in the Lake Van region. The medieval city suffered serious depredations in the form of military assaults and earthquakes between the 13th and the 16th centuries that caused the urban center to be rebuilt at least twice at some distance from the medieval location. While only meager traces of the medieval urban fabric remain, Ahlat preserves a remarkable medieval funerary landscape of cemeteries and tomb towers that attest to the dynamic workings of local urban agency. This essay focuses on a discrete set of tomb towers of the late thirteenth century built by Muslim amirs of the Ilkhanate in order to explore the relationship between these new urban actors and the physically elusive urban stage of medieval Ahlat, in tandem with contemporary political circumstances. These tomb towers – built in the outskirts of the medieval city in the aftermath of much destruction witnessed in the course of the thirteenth century – represent some of the earliest indications of Islamization among Ilkhanid amirs but have hitherto been studied from a purely formalistic angle. In order to situate these monuments in their historical context, the essay is grounded in an extended summary of the medieval (7th-13th centuries) political and military history and the attendant demographic changes that significantly impacted the urban structure of Ahlat. The construction of tomb towers is investigated in the light of the compromised nature of the thirteenth-century urban settlement and the contemporary emergence of nodes of Sufi inhabitation in the peripheries of Ahlat as can be deduced from Ottoman-period tax registers. Amounting to a spatial externalization of urban agency, the tomb towers and Sufi lodges represent distinct but complementary claims to reconstitute social and political influence in the face of a ruptured urban center. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2412-3196 |
| Relation: | http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/?arp=9172-8inhalt/090_MW14_pancaroglu.pdf |
| DOI: | 10.1553/medievalworlds_no14_2021s117 |
| الاتاحة: | http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/?arp=9172-8inhalt/090_MW14_pancaroglu.pdf https://doi.org/10.1553/medievalworlds_no14_2021s117 |
| Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.AC648235 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 24123196 |
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| DOI: | 10.1553/medievalworlds_no14_2021s117 |