This album contains historical photographs of the city of Manisa, a city of historical importance in connection with the Ottoman Beyliks and the Ottoman Empire. Located inland but not far from the Aegean Sea, today in an important industrial zone, the city has well preserved its old sites and monuments. The photographs were selected from the Yıldız Palace Albums contained in the archive of IRCICA dating from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, i.e. the period of Sultan Abdulhamid II. The introductory texts and the brief annotations are in three languages: English, Turkish and Arabic. The book has a Foreword by Bulent Arınc, State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey, who had suggested the idea of the publication. The latter has been produced with the support and contributions of the Turkish Prime Ministry’s Directorate General of Press and Publications.
This is the seventh publication in IRCICA’s Series of Albums of Historical Photographs. In the context of its studies on the history of Islamic civilization, Muslim countries and their urban and architectural heritage IRCICA publishes albums of historical photographs of major heritage cities selected from its archives, to render these visual sources available to researchers and general readership.
