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  • The Parthenon, Pericles and King Solomon: a case study of Ottoman archaeological imagination in Greece

  • Elizabeth Key Fowden
  • Journal:
    Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies / Volume 42 / Issue 2 / October 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 September 2018, pp. 261-274
    Print publication:
    October 2018

  • What made Athens different from other multi-layered cities absorbed into the Ottoman Empire was the strength of its ancient reputation for learning that echoed across the Arabic and Ottoman worlds. But not only sages were remembered and Islamized in Athens; sometimes political figures were too. In the early eighteenth century a mufti of Athens, Mahmud Efendi, wrote a rarely studied History of the City of Sages (Tarih-i Medinetü’l-Hukema) in which he transformed Pericles into a wise leader on a par with the Qur'anic King Solomon and linked the Parthenon mosque to Solomon's temple in Jerusalem.