Emine Fetvacı is associate professor of Islamic art at Boston University. She is the author of Picturing History at the Ottoman Court and the coeditor of Writing History at the Ottoman Court.
This truly stunning book is a landmark in the field. Fetvaci introduces readers to the album compiled for Ahmed I, which has previously never been systematically studied, and uses the album as a launching pad for cogent arguments about changing tastes and artistic priorities at the seventeenth-century Ottoman court. -Jane Hathaway, author of The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem This expansively researched book closely scrutinizes the Ahmed I album and places it in its broadest cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts. Offering an insightful and multilayered reading of the conceptual underpinnings of the album's construction, The Album of the World Emperor makes a valuable and original contribution to Islamicate cultural and art history, Ottoman studies, and the history of early modern cultural connections and interactions. -Cigdem Kafescioglu, author of Constantinopolis/Istanbul