Death in Istanbul

death and its rituals in Ottoman-Islamic culture

Edición de la obra Death in Istanbul

Death and the city -- Death in Ottoman-Islamic culture -- Dealing with death -- Empire and death -- The birth of the Ottoman tombstone -- The evolution of the epitaph -- Women -- The uses of gravestones -- Playing with form -- Crime and punishment -- Disease and death -- Suicide -- Monumental obsession -- Aspects of modernity -- Death Alla Franca -- State, nation and death.