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GARDENS OF THE DEAD IN OTTOMAN TIMES

GARDENS OF THE DEAD IN OTTOMAN TIMES The warld is decrepit and will not last. Today I am called. Tomorraw will be yaur turn. Fram the Fiftieth Discourse of Jalaladdin Rumi, trans. Arberry. The Ottoman approach to death was influenced by a Turkic Shamanist past and by the many faiths of Central Asia during the period of MongoI dominance. 1 The gardens of death are the heroes of this tale at a time when a garden was more an orchard or a grove of trees, watered by a pool and perhaps endowed with a view. It was not a colorscape of flowerbeds. If in Ottoman society they were altogether freer and more informal than in Persia, formal gardens did exist, and architecture and garden, including burial stones and retreats for prayer, were interwoven as much in Anatolia and the Balkans as anywhere else in Islam. 2 The burial of the Prophet in the house of one of his wives established the concept of the mausoleum,3 and so 01' the türbe, as a distinct element in Islamic and so Ottoman architecture. But for every one of these memorials, myriad humbler stones were raised. A man is aspeck among many, which makes ambition foolish, yet paradoxically creates http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Muqarnas Online Brill

GARDENS OF THE DEAD IN OTTOMAN TIMES

Goodwin, Godfrey
Muqarnas Online , Volume 5 (1): 61 – Jan 1, 1987
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Copyright 1987 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0732-2992
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The warld is decrepit and will not last. Today I am called. Tomorraw will be yaur turn. Fram the Fiftieth Discourse of Jalaladdin Rumi, trans. Arberry. The Ottoman approach to death was influenced by a Turkic Shamanist past and by the many faiths of Central Asia during the period of MongoI dominance. 1 The gardens of death are the heroes of this tale at a time when a garden was more an orchard or a grove of trees, watered by a pool and perhaps endowed with a view. It was not a colorscape of flowerbeds. If in Ottoman society they were altogether freer and more informal than in Persia, formal gardens did exist, and architecture and garden, including burial stones and retreats for prayer, were interwoven as much in Anatolia and the Balkans as anywhere else in Islam. 2 The burial of the Prophet in the house of one of his wives established the concept of the mausoleum,3 and so 01' the türbe, as a distinct element in Islamic and so Ottoman architecture. But for every one of these memorials, myriad humbler stones were raised. A man is aspeck among many, which makes ambition foolish, yet paradoxically creates

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Published: Jan 1, 1987

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