Gülru Necipoğlu

Gülru Necipoğlu
Born 1956 (age 61–62)
Istanbul, Turkey
Alma mater Wesleyan University
Awards Fuat Köprülü Book Prize (2006)
Scientific career
Fields Islamic art, Ottoman architecture
Institutions Harvard University
Doctoral advisor Oleg Grabar

Gülru Necipoğlu (born 1956 in Istanbul) is a Turkish-born American professor of Islamic Art at Harvard University. She is known for her researches in Ottoman art and architecture.

Biography

Necipoğlu attended the Robert College of Istanbul, a high school, graduating in 1975. She received a degree in art history from Wesleyan University. In 1982, she received a master's degree in Islamic art and architecture from Harvard University. Four years later, she obtained her PhD for her dissertation titled The Formation of an Ottoman Imperial Tradition: The Topkapı Palace in the 15th and 16th Centuries, under the guidance of Oleg Grabar.[1]

Necipoğlu started work at Harvard as an assistant professor in 1987. Between 1989–1993, she was the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities. Since 1993, she has been the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art (succeeding Oleg Grabar)[2] as well as Director of the Aga Khan Islamic Architecture Program.[1]

Necipoğlu has been a Member of the American Philosophical Society since 2007,[3] and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 2008.[4]

Gülru Necipoğlu is married to Cemal Kafadar.[5]

Research

Necipoğlu has worked on the medieval and the early modern periods of Islamic history, concentrating on the Mediterranean basin and the eastern Islamic lands. Her work on the Topkapı Scroll is established a solid academic foundation, and was lauded with the Albert Hourani Book Award as well as the Spiro Kostof Book Award. Her book on Sinan won the Fuat Köprülü Book Prize in 2006.

She has focussed on the visual culture and architecture of the Ottoman period, the comparative study of the Ottoman and Safavid empires, and the cultural exchanges between the Byzantines, the Islamic world and Renaissance Italy.

An example of the practices common to the Italian and Islamic worlds, Necipoğlu in her article The Suburban Landscape of 16th century Istanbul as a Mirror of Classical Ottoman Garden Culture showed that the Ottomans took elements of the Greco-Roman villa and combined them with Safavid garden design, thereby synthesising forms that could be said to belong to the Mediterranean ethos shared with the Italians.[6]

Selected works

Articles

  • Necipoğlu-Kafadar, Gülru (1985). "The Süleymaniye Complex in Istanbul: An Interpretation". Muqarnas. 3. doi:10.2307/1523086. JSTOR 1523086.
  • Necipoğlu-Kafadar, Gülru (September 1986). "Plans and Models in 15th- and 16th-Century Ottoman Architectural Practice". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 45 (3). doi:10.2307/990160.
  • Necipoğlu, Gülru (1993). "Framing the Gaze in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Palaces". Ars Orientalis. 23. JSTOR 4629455.
  • Necipoğlu, Gülru (1997). "The Suburban Landscape of 16th century Istanbul as a Mirror of Classical Ottoman Garden Culture". In Petruccioli, Attilio. Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires. Brill.
  • Necipoğlu, Gülru (2007). "Creation Of A National Genius: Sinan And The Historiography Of "Classical" Ottoman Architecture". Muqarnas. 24. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004163201.i-310.27.
  • Necipoğlu, Gülru (2008). "The Dome of the Rock as Palimpsest: ʿAbd al-Malik's Grand Narrative and Sultan Süleyman's Glosses". Muqarnas. 25.
  • Necipoğlu, Gülru (2012). "The Concept of Islamic Art: Inherited Discourses and New Approaches". Journal of Art Historiography. 6.
  • Necipoğlu, Gülru (2016). "Early modern floral: The agency of ornament in Ottoman and Safavid visual cultures". Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local. Princeton. pp. 132–155.

Books

  • Necipoğlu, Gülru (1991). Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Architectural History Foundation. ISBN 978-0-262-14050-8.
  • Necipoğlu, Gülru; Al-Asad, Mohammad (1995). The Topkapı Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture : Topkapı Palace Museum Library MS. Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities. ISBN 978-0-89236-335-3.
  • Necipoğlu, Gülru (2005). The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire. Reaktion. ISBN 978-1-86189-244-7.
  • Necipoğlu, Gülru; Payne, Alina (8 March 2016). Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local. Princeton University. ISBN 978-0-691-16728-2.

References

  1. 1 2 "Necipoglu, Gülru 1956- (Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar)". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  2. ↑ Robb, Peter (August 2014). "Art Gallery NSW's Michael Brand". The Monthly. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "Dr. Gülrü Necipoglu". American Philosophical Society. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "Professor Gulru Necipoglu". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. February 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  5. ↑ Tepeler, Ebru (29 September 2013). "Sinan sayesinde Osmanlı toplumunu daha iyi anladım". Milliyet. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  6. ↑ Gamm, Nikki (21 June 2014). "Gardens of the Middle East". Hurriyet Daily News. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
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