List of FiguresNote on Contributors A Note on Translation and TransliterationAcknowledgments Introduction: Writing the Modern Biography of an Ancient Monument Emily Neumeier and Benjamin Anderson 1. Hagia Sophia's Second Conversion: The Building Campaign of Mahmud I and the Transformation from Mosque to Complex (1739-43) Ünver Rüstem 2. The Paradoxes of Hagia Sophia's Ablution Fountain: The Qasida al-Burda in Cosmopolitan Istanbul Tülay Artan 3. The Calligraphic Arts in the Age of Ottoman Architectural Renovation Emily Neumeier 4. From the Mouth of Angels: Folkloric Hagia Sophia Benjamin Anderson 5. The Other Ayasofya: The Restoration of Salonica's Ayasofya Mosque, 1890-1911 Sotirios Dimitriadis 6. 'That Domed Feeling': A Byzantine Synagogue in Cleveland Robert S. Nelson 7.

The Monument of the Present: The Fossati Restoration of Hagia Sophia (1847-9) Asli Menevse 8. From Ceremony to Spectacle: Changing Perceptions of Hagia Sophia through the Night of Power ( Laylat al-Qadr ) Prayer Ceremonies Ayse Hil'l Ugurlu 9. Temple of the World's Desire: Hagia Sophia in the American Press, c. 1910-1927 Robert Ousterhout Index.