Title: Death in Istanbul
Description: Death and the city -- Death in Ottoman-Islamic culture -- Dealing with death -- Empire and death -- The birth of the Ottoman tombstone -- The evolution of the epitaph -- Women -- The uses of gravestones -- Playing with form -- Crime and punishment -- Disease and death -- Suicide -- Monumental obsession -- Aspects of modernity -- Death Alla Franca -- State, nation and death.
Subjects: Buildings, structures, Islamic Sepulchral monuments, Islamic Funeral rites and ceremonies, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ottoman Architecture, Cemeteries, Islamic architecture, Mausoleums, History, Exhibitions, Death, Social aspects, Religious aspects, Islam
Places: Turkey, Istanbul (Turkey), Istanbul
Time periods: Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918