Fluidity and Imprecision
At no period in the history of Istanbul can the number of mahalles within the walled city be taken as…
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The Kasap İlyas Mahalle
Kasap ƒlyas (“Butcher ƒlyas”) mahalle is a smallish neighborhood in southcentral intramural Istanbul, bordering on the sea of Marmara and…
The Islamic City suite
It is also usually understood, in the context of the same paradigm, that the guilds in Islamic cities did not…
The Islamic City
Social and urban historians of Istanbul have often stressed the idea that these mahalles, however diverse they may have been,…
The Mahalle and the Semt
Ever since the early sixteenth century, the urban fabric of the residential areas of intramural Istanbul has consisted of a…
The City, The Semt and the Mahalle
The image of Istanbul as the city, or as “a world in itself” was often used to depict the size,…