1. What would you be seeing if you had arrived to Istanbul in the seventeenth century? Imagine you are a seventeenth century author writing a travelogue or a chronicle about your city? How will you begin your work? What is your first sentence?

2. Today’s Lecture
Review
Hippodrome, Aya Sofya, Ahi Çelebi Mosque
Life in the Seventeenth Century Istanbul
Population
Vakfs and urban centers
Life and Death

3. Review
Evliya Çelebi and the Legends of Constantinople
-Monuments at the Hippodrome
-Hagia Sophia
Evliya Çelebi’s Dream and Ahi Çelebi Mosque
Sculpture of Justinianus, Hippodrome and Hagia Sophia from Tercüme-i Miftâh-ı Cifrü’l Câmi. (Translation of the Cifr Book of Cami), 15th century

7. Sultan Süleyman watching the festivities, from the Hünernâme (Book of Skills), sixteenth century.

8. Mehmed II aiming at the serpent column from Hünernâme, sixteenth century

10. The talismanic sculptures in Istanbul, from an illustrated manuscript of a book called “Wonders of Art and Nature”

11. Avratpazarı (today in Cerrahpaşa) and the column of Arcadius, c
Avratpazarı (today in Cerrahpaşa) and the column of Arcadius, c.1610, woodcut.

12. Weekly market at Avratpazarı, painting from a mid-seventeenth-century album

15. Prophet Süleyman at his throne with the queen, from the Falname, (Book of Fortune) early seventeenth century

16. Three horses on columns from an illustrated manuscript of a book called “Wonders of Art and Nature”

19. Prophet Süleyman at this throne, from Bursalı Firdevsi,
Süleymanname, late fifteenth-early sıxteenthe century

23. Canaletto (1697-1768) Capriccio: The Horses of San Marco in the Piazzetta

25. The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, built between 1806 and 1808 to commemorate Napoleon’s military victories of the previous year.

27. Sculpture of Justinianus, Hippodrome and Hagia Sophia from Tercüme-i Miftâh-ı Cifrü’l Câmi. (Translation of the Cifr Book of Cami), 15th century

28. Sultan Süleyman watching the festivities, from the Hünernâme (Book of Skills), sixteenth century.

29. Population of Istanbul?
according to Barkan
About people ( households)
46, 635 Muslim households
25, 292 Christian households
8, 070 Jewish households
58.7% Muslim, 41.7% Christian and Jewish

30. Population of Istanbul Earliest Report from 1477

32. If you wish to stand in high honor on the sultan’s threshold
You must be a Jew or a Persian or a Frank
You must choose the name Habil, Kabil, Hamidi
And behave like Zorzo: show no knowledge
By a certain Çatladı, a courtier of Mehmed II
Complexes built by the ruling elite Rum Mehmed Paşa complex (left) Mahmud Paşa Complex (right)

33. Süleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul. What is included in this complex?

34. Review: plan of Süleyman’s complex (külliye)
Mosque and mausoleums of Süleyman and Hürreö
4 general medreses
2 specialized medreses- one for the study of medicine, the other for the study of hadis
a Koran school for the children
a hospital
a hospice (tabhane)
a public kitchen (imarethane)
a hammam
rows of small shops

35. Vakf (waqf) : pious endowment
Vakfiye : the deed of endowment, drawn up before a kadi, entered in his registers and confirmed by the sultan.
Continued existence, because profits from a source, does not impair the capital
Legal fiction, only God has propriety rights, even if government and states change in theory the continuation guaranteed.
İmaret (complex): supported by a vakf
may consist of mosque, fountain, tomb, schools (primary, hadith, medicine, law), hospital, sufi lodge, soup kitchen, carvanserai, hamam, shops

36. LONDON Population estimates
In 1563,
1593-5,
1632,
1700,
end of 18th cent, 860, 000
ISTANBUL population estimates
In ,
In 1600s, to

37. A panorama of London by Claes Van Visscher, 1616. Old St
A panorama of London by Claes Van Visscher, Old St. Paul’s had lost its spire by this time. The two theatres on the foreground (Southwark) side of the Thames are the Bear Garden and The Globe. The large church in the foreground is St Mary Overie

38. Great Fire of Istanbul in 1660
begins in Ayazma kapı (near Unkapanı) spreads to Bayezıd ve Fatih, Kapalıçarşı, Mahmud Paşa, Tahtakale, Kumkapı
dead
houses
300 palaces
100 hans and kervansarays
Other major fires in the seventeenth century:
1633, 1645, 1652, 1653, 1656, 1665, 1678, 1680, 1681, 1685, 1687, 1690, 1691, 1691, 1693, 1695, 1698, 1701

39. “No bells tolled and nobody wept no matter what his loss because almost everyone expected death”
“Father abounded child, wife husband, one brother another… for this plague seemed to strike through the breath and sight. And so they die. And no one could be found to bury the dead for money or friendship… And I, Angola di Tura, called the Fat, buried my five children with my own hands, and so did many others likewise.”

40. Today’s Lecture
Review
Hippodrome, Aya Sofya, Ahi Çelebi Mosque
Life in the Seventeenth Century Istanbul
Population
Vakfs and urban centers
Life and Death