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  • 6 - Shining Power

  • from Part II - Dark Politics
  • Avner Wishnitzer, Tel-Aviv University
  • Book:
    As Night Falls
    Published online:
    27 July 2021
    Print publication:
    01 July 2021, pp 173-206

  • Summary

    While the night posed a challenge to authority of the sultan, it was also opportunity to showcase the power of the ruler. By illuminating mosques, Sufi lodges and palaces; in public and private light spectacles, and through court-produced texts, Ottoman sultans in the eighteenth century sought to associate themselves with light and through this association, to project their power and legitimate it in the eyes of their subjects and rivals. The two mediums, words and light, were intentionally and intricately connected to serve this purpose. While Ottoman use of actual and figurative light to project royal power and legitimacy had a long history, the palace elite of the early eighteenth century, and in particular the ruling clique of the so-called Tulip Era (narrowly defined 1718–1730), took it to a whole new level.