Dr Zeynep Yurekli-Gorkay

Position:

University Lecturer in Islamic Art and Archaeology

Faculty / College Address:

The Khalili Research Centre

3 St John Street

Oxford

OX1 2LG

Tel. 01865 278266

Email:

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Research Interests:

Late medieval and early modern Islamic architecture; illustrated manuscripts; Sufi shrines; hagiography and historiography

Current Project:

Islamic Shrines in the Age of Empires (Reaktion Books, Architecture of Death Series)

Recent Publications:

In press

Architecture, Hagiography and Politics in the Ottoman Empire: Bektashi Shrines in the Sixteenth Century (Ashgate, Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs).

'Writing Down the Feats and Setting Up the Scene: Hagiographers and Architectural Patrons in the Age of Empires', in The Nexus of Sufism and Society: Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World 1200-1800, ed. John J. Curry and Erik S. Ohlander (Routledge, Sufi Series).

'The Sword Dhū'l-faqār and the Ottomans', F. Suleman, ed., People of the Prophet's House: Art, Architecture and Shi'ism in the Islamic World, ed. F. Suleman (Institute of Ismaili Studies and Azimuth Editions).

'Two Shrines Joined in One Network: Seyyid Gazi and Hacı Bektaş', Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia: The Life and Works of F.W. Hasluck, 1878-1920, ed. D. Shankland (Istanbul: Isis).

'Afyonkarahisar (Afyon Kara Hisar)', Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition (Leiden: Brill).

'Conspicuous Spolia in Architecture: A Trademark of Anatolian Frontier Warriors,' in Tradition, Identity and Synthesis: Cultural Crossings and Art, edited by S. Bağcı and Z. Yasa Yaman (Ankara: Hacettepe University Press).

Published

'Ottoman Painting, Venetian Audience, Divergent Content: The Source of a Picture from Taeschner's Album', Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Turkish Art, edited by I. Gerelyes (Budapest: Hungarian National Museum, 2009): 759-71.

'Bir Kitabenin Söylemeye Çalıştıkları / What an Inscription is Trying to Say', Journal of Turkish Studies – Türklük Bilgisi Araştırmaları Dergisi 31 (2007): 339-48.

'Şiir ve Güzel Sanatlar: Klasik Osmanlı Üslupları Arasında İlişkiler', in Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi, edited by T. Halman (Ankara: TR Ministry of Culture, 2006), I: 411-26.

'Şeyh Bedreddin ve Ecinniler: Alışılmışın ve Çalışılmışın Dışında bir Menakıbname', in Şinasi Tekin'in Anısına: Uygurlardan Osmanlıya, edited by G. Kut and F. Büyükkarcı (Istanbul: Simurg, 2005): 721-31.

'A Building Between the Public and Private Realms of the Ottoman Ruling Elite: The Sufi Convent of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha in Istanbul', Muqarnas 20 (2003): 159-185.