4 Suggestions on the Social Meaning, Structure and Functions of Akhi Communities and their Hospices in Medieval Anatolia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Foreword xii
6. 1 Introduction – Space and Place: Applications to Medieval Anatolia 1
7. Part I Building: Masons and Infrastructure
8. 2 Craftsmen in Medieval Anatolia: Methods and Mobility 27
9. 3 Stones for Travellers: Notes on the Masonry of Seljuk Road Caravanserais 59
10. Part II Social Groups: Akhis and Futuwwa
11. 4 Suggestions on the Social Meaning, Structure and Functions of Akhi Communities and their Hospices in Medieval Anatolia 95
12. 5 Social Graces and Urban Spaces: Brotherhood and the Ambiguities of Masculinity and Religious Practice in Late Medieval Anatolia 114
13. Part III Exchange: Islamic and Christian Architecture
14. 6 Transformation of the ‘Sacred’ Image of a Byzantine Cappadocian Settlement 135
15. 7 The ‘Islamicness’ of Some Decorative Patterns in the Church of Tigran Honents in Ani 155
16. Part IV Frameworks: Language, Geography and Identity
17. 8 Harvesting Garden Semantics in Late Medieval Anatolia 185
18. 9 All Quiet on the Eastern Frontier? The Contemporaries of Early Ottoman Architecture in Eastern Anatolia 200
19. 10 The ‘Dual Identity’ of Mahperi Khatun: Piety, Patronage and Marriage across Frontiers in Seljuk Anatolia 224
20. Notes on Contributors 253
21. Bibliography 257
22. Index 287