The fragrance of the divine: Ottoman incense burners and their context

• Autores: Nina Ergin
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 96, Nº 1, 2014, págs. 70-97
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Ottoman incense burners, a group of which is now in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art in Istanbul, represent a type of object that contributed to communicating a “multi-sensorial message of the divine” in mosques and mausolea. An examination of the various contexts in which they stood, in addition to style and form, reveals pre-Islamic and Islamic olfactory traditions, the fumigatories used in them, the professions related to fumigation, the object’s spatial and temporal contexts, and, finally, the practical, religious, social, and political meanings of the deployed fragrances.