Intro
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: "I am the Granddaughter of the Ottomans": Gender, Aesthetics and Agency in Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries-An Introduction
A Desirable Past, Homogeneous Fellowships and Fixed Roles
Imaginaries of a Future Past
Religion, Heritage and Belonging
Gender During the AKP Regime
Communicating Heritage and History, Building Identities
Neo-Ottomanism's Elusive Cultural Authority
References
Chapter 2: Neo-Ottomanism versus Ottomania: Contestation of Gender in Historical Drama
Neo-Ottomanism versus Ottomania

A Feminised-Private Sphere: Gender Anxieties in Ottomania and Neo-Ottomanism
Truth, Pleasure, and Anxieties
Magnificent Century: Popular Gone Wrong
Complex Characters
Powerful Women
Conspicuous Consumption and Authenticity
Resurrection: Ertuğrul: State-Endorsed Popular
Meet-Cute
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Lovers of the Rose: Islamic Affect and the Politics of Commemoration in Turkish Museal Display
Reviving Art, Contesting the Present
Museums, Nationalism, and Religion: Key Issues and Recent Trends

A New Museology: Critical Perspectives on Subjectivity, Materiality, Affect, and Representation
The Sacred and the City: Istanbul as a Ritual-Museal Memory Site
Re-Narrating, Ritualising, and Redeeming History in Turkish Memory Space
Expanding Memory Spaces: Visual-Ritual Commemoration in Public Space
Hilye-i Şerif: Commemoration, Affect, and Nationalism in Calligraphic Incorporation
Negotiating a Devotional Art Tradition in Contemporary Display
Re-Scripting the Prophetic Body
A Nation on Display under a Pious Gaze

Concluding Note: A Valentinisation of Islamic-Ottoman Memory
References
Chapter 4: Between Memory and Forgetting and Purity and Danger: The Case of the Ulucanlar Prison Museum
Situating the Ulucanlar Prison Museum Case Study
On Public Space, Museums, and Collective Memory in Turkey
On Neo-Ottomanism
The Space of the Prison Museum
Remembering Political Dissidents in the Prison Museum
Reading the Ulucanlar Prison Museum
Neo-Ottomanism and the Prison Museum
Concluding Remarks
References

Chapter 5: Architectures of Domination? The Sacralisation of Modernity and the Limits of Ottoman Islamism
Sacralisation and Restoration: Islam, the Ottoman Empire, and the AKP
The Representative Architecture of the AKP Era
Re-enchanting Modern Cityscapes: The Hacıbayram Mosque and Neighbourhood
Diminishing the Republican Past in Ankara and Istanbul: Ulus and Taksim
The Atatürk Cultural Centre and the Taksim Mosque
Dominating the Present: Power and the Common Good
The Çamlıca Mosque
The Presidential Complex
Conclusion
References