Ünver Rüstem, assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University, on "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton University Press).

The book examines the adoption of Baroque and rococo styles in Istanbul mosques between 1740 and 1800, looking at how this fits into - or perhaps questions - popular ideas of Ottoman decline and Western influence.

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