Product Description: The sixteenth-century Ottoman architect Sinan is today universally recognized as the defining figure in the development of the classical Ottoman style. In addition to his vast oeuvre, he left five remarkable autobiographical accounts, the Adsız Risale, the Risāletü'l-Miʿmāriyye, Tuḥfetü'l-Miʿmārīn, Teẕkiretü'l-Ebniye and Teẕkiretü’l-Bünyān, that provide details of his life and works...read more

Product Description: This is an annotated translation of what is perhaps the most important Ottoman literary source for the Islamic monuments of the Ottoman capital, Istanbul: Haf z Huseyin bin Ismail Ayvansarayi's Hadikat al-Cevami (The Garden of Mosques)...read more

Product Description: This work translates perhaps the most important Ottoman literary source for the Islamic monuments of Istanbul. Containing descriptions of more than 800 mosques, accounts of tombs and tekkes and other monuments and provides information about the patrons and architects mentioned in the text...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)