Sirkeci Railway Station, Constantinople, 1888-1890 Architect: A. Jasmund.  The eastern end of the "Orient Express"

Haydarpasa Railway Station, Constantinople, 1906-08.   Architect: Otto Ritter and Helmuth Cuno. The western end of the Constantinople-Baghdad railway.

 Read:

• Selim Deringil , " Long Live the Sultan! Symbolism and Power in the Hamidian Regime," chapter one of his The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire 1876-1909, London, 1998, pp. 16-43.
  

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Extra credit project - Kresge Art Museum  - if you wish to do this project, please submit by the last class day of the semester.

Photo of Religious Leaders in Jerusalem March 30 2005.

Rescript of Gulhane 1839 and the Islahat Fermani of 1856.