The Arabist: Budapest Studies in Arabic

Pertevniyal’s Mosque Revisited

Pertevniyal’s Mosque Revisited

István Ormos (Budapest)

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doi: 10.58513/ARABIST.2024.47.9

Abstract

The present paper is an expanded effort to sketch the background to the building of Pertevniyal’s mosque in Istanbul (1869–1872) within its contemporary setting and subsequent historical and ideological developments, in order to make the consider­able changes and variations in its appreciation understood.

Keywords

Pertevniyal’s mosque in Istanbul; Rifāꜥī mosque in Cairo; Ottomanism; Ottoman Renaissance; Tanzimat, Islamic architecture; Ottoman architecture; Second Siege of Vienna (1683)