This thesis analyzes an anonymous portrait painting of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II (r. 1808-1839), called by its descriptive title Seated Portrait of Mahmud II , within the context of the extensive portrait campaign commissioned by the sultan. Surviving examples from this serie…
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This dissertation explains how and why concern for the food supply in urban centers contributed to social and political conservatism in Morocco, a theocracy based on divine kingship and patriarchal relations. Millers and butchers were key agents of urban food provisioning, so co…
The Moroccan Andalusian music has survived for more than half a millennium in North Africa by virtue of both oral and written processes of presentation and transmission, a characteristic referred to as mixed orality. The two types of process can coexist within the tradition beca…
This dissertation investigates the struggle over architecture and urban form in Fez, Morocco from nineteenth century to the present. It examines the mellah , the walled urban quarter that historically segregated the Jewish community from the Muslim majority in this iconic North …