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REVISITING THE T-SHAPED ZAVIYE/IMARET: BUILDINGS

AND INSTITUTIONS IN EARLY OTTOMAN ARCHITECTURE
Workshop at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul SRII, 18-20 March 2013
Organisers: Zeynep Ouz, Maximilian Hartmuth, Marianne Boqvist

Program
Monday
14:00-14:30 Opening remarks
14:30-16:00 Panel 1
Hasan Karatas (University of St.Thomas/MN)
A dervish factory: the historical implications of the architecture and endowment deed of
Yakup Pasha lodge-mosque in Amasya
Sara Ethel Wolper (University of New Hampshire)
Multiple histories and multiple functions: pre-Ottoman lodges and the formation of the
Ottoman T-shaped zaviye
Paul Wordsworth (University of Copenhagen)
Accommodation in hostile lands: characterising caravanserais in Eastern Khorasan,
from archaeological evidence
Discussion (30 min.)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Panel 2
Charlotta Hanner Nordstrand (Gothenburg University)
Byzantine built environments in Syria
Gertrud Olsson (KTH Stockholm)
From Byzantine mosaic pieces to Islamic tile ornamentation
Dimitris Loupis (Harvard University)
Forms and functions of T-shaped buildings. Examples from the Mediterranean and the
Middle East.

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Discussion (30 min.)

19:00- Reception followed by a buffet dinner at the SRII
Tuesday
09:30-13:30 Excursion
A tour of Mahmud Pasha Camii, Atik Ali Pasa Camii, Eski Imaret (Pantepoptes), Selimiye
and Murad Pasha Camii led by Yavuz Sezer, MIT
15:00-16:30 Panel 3
Heath Lowry (Princeton/Baheehir University)
Were the Ottoman T-type zaviye-imarets originally built as residences? A case study of
the Hac-Gazi Imarets in Gmlcine, Serres & Yenice-i Vardar
York Norman (Buffalo State College)
The sa Bey maret/Zaviyes of Sarajevo and Skopje: the legacy of an Ottoman local
dynasty
Machiel Kiel (NIT)
The T-plan buildings in early Ottoman architecture: materials for a synthesis of the
theories and thoughts about it
Discussion (30 min.)
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:30 Panel 4
Panagiotis Kontolaimos (National Technical University of Athens)
Zaviye and the early ottoman city. Context and role
Sedat Emir (Dokuz Eyll University),
A Unique Type of Building Specific to the Early Ottoman Architecture: The Problems
Concerning the Typology
Zeynep Ouz (Harvard University)
The palatial elements in the zaviyes of early Ottoman rulers
Discussion (30 min.)
18:30-19:00 Refreshments

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19:00 Open Lecture

Alberto Fabio Ambrosio (Dominican Institute Istanbul, EHESS)
Anti-Sufism in the Turkish Republican Era
Followed by a reception at the SRII
Wednesday
09:30-11:00 Panel 5
Suna aaptay (Baheehir University/MIT)
Locally grown and globally known: origins of the inverted T-plan buildings in Bithynia
revisited
Amy Singer (Tel Aviv University)
Early Ottoman imrets whom did they serve?
Grigor Boykov (NIT/Sofia University)
Unveiling T-shaped imaret/zaviyes in the Ottoman realm: what makes (documentary)
archeology important?
Discussion (30 min.)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Panel 6
idem Kafesciolu (Boazii University)
Lives and afterlives of an urban institution and its spaces:
the Ottoman convent-mosque in Istanbul and beyond
Johan Mrtelius (KTH Stockholm)
The architectural synthesis of Murat I
Maximilian Hartmuth (University of Vienna)
What was an early Ottoman " imret "? Architecture and institution-building on the
Christian-Muslim frontier in the fourteenth century.
Discussion (30 min.)
13:00-13:45 Concluding remarks

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