This course aims to provide students with

• Ottoman approach to Western European culture;
• Social change in Ottoman world following the sixteenth century;
• A new definition of “Westernization” in Ottoman art, culture and architecture;
• Formation of Ottoman architecture in the eighteenth century and its phases;
• Terminological and taxonomical clarity;
• Characteristics of Historicism, Baroque, Occidentalism, Orientalism and Exoticism.