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Title: | Some corner of a foreign field forever Ottoman |
Authors: | Thake, Conrad |
Keywords: | Turkish Cemetery (Marsa, Malta) Abdülaziz, Sultan of the Turks, 1830-1876 Turkey -- History -- Abdul Aziz, 1861-1876 Malta -- History -- British occupation, 1800-1964 Art and architecture -- Malta -- History -- 19th century Architecture, Ottoman -- Malta Islam and architecture -- Malta Cemeteries -- Malta -- History -- 19th century |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
Publisher: | Cornucopia Turkey |
Citation: | Thake, C. (2020). Some corner of a foreign field forever Ottoman. Cornucopia, 61, 22-27 |
Abstract: | Ever since the author was a small child, the local Ottoman Muslim cemetery has been a source of boundless fascination to him: an architectural enigma, a romantic Oriental fantasy that would embed itself in his consciousness and fire his imagination. Whenever he was driven past it in the back of his father’s Fiat 500, it appeared to him as some fantastical and exotic palace with fairytale towers, inhabited by dashing princes and foreign potentates, unlike anything he had ever seen around him. He longed to explore it more closely, but as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry observes in The Little Prince, “sometimes there’s no harm in postponing your work until later”. And so, some 45 years on, as an architect and architectural historian, he felt it was high time to revisit the subject of his childhood fascination. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/59389 |
ISSN: | 1301-8175 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtHa |
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