Muqarnas, Volume 24 : History and Ideology: Architectural Heritage of the 'Lands of Rum'

Muqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources. Contents ......Page 6 Sibel Bozdogan and Gülru Necipoglu, Entangled Discourses: Scrutinizing Orientalist and Nationalist Legacies in the Architectural Historiography of the "Lands of Rum"......Page 8 Cemal Kafadar, A Rome of One's Own: Reflections on Cultural Geography and Identity in the Lands of Rum......Page 14 Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, An Uneasy Historiography: The Legacy of Ottoman Architecture in the Former Arab Provinces......Page 34 Kishwar Rizvi, Art History and the Nation: Arthur Upham Pope and the Discourse on "Persian Art" in the Early Twentieth Century......Page 52 Oya Pancaroglu, Formalism and the Academic Foundation of Turkish Art in the Early Twentieth Century......Page 74 Finbarr Barry Flood, Lost in Translation: Architecture, Taxonomy, and the Eastern "Turks"......Page 86 Ahmet Ersoy, Architecture and the Search for Ottoman Origins in the Tanzimat Period......Page 124 Gülru Necipoglu, Creation of a National Genius: Sinan and the Historiography of "Classical" Ottoman Architecture......Page 148 Shirine Hamadeh, Westernization, Decadence, and the Turkish Baroque: Modern Constructions of the Eighteenth Century......Page 192 Sibel Bozdogan, Reading Ottoman Architecture through Modernist Lenses: Nationalist Historiography and the "New Architecture" in the Early Republic......Page 206 S. M. Can Bilsel, "Our Anatolia": Organicism and the Making of Humanist Culture in Turkey......Page 230 Scott Redford, "What Have You Done for Anatolia Today?": Islamic Archaeology in the Early Years of the Turkish Republic......Page 250 Wendy Shaw, Museums and Narratives of Display from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic......Page 260 Nur Altinyildiz, The Architectural Heritage of Istanbul and the Ideology of Preservation......Page 288 CONTRIBUTORS......Page 314 CORRIGENDUM......Page 317 The 14 articles of this year's annual are devoted entirely to the historiography of the art and architectural history of Turkey. The influence of Ataturk and his pervasive promotion of the Turkish nation are a frequent subject, though the reader will be struck by the new take on the ideas of both westernization and Orientalism to be found in the invention of Turkish art and architectural history in the 19th and 20th centuries, with articles on formalism, Arthur Upham Pope, and the influential and controversial Austrian art historian Josef Strzygowski. The volume is oversized (8.75x11""), beaut