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 Risāletu'l-Miʿmāriyye, Tuḥfetu'l-Miʿmārīn, Teẕkiretu'l-Ebniye and Teẕkiretu'l-Bunyān, that provide details of his life and works. Based on information dictated by Sinan to his poet-painter friend Mustafa Saʿi Celebi shortly before his death,...
The sixteenth-century Ottoman architect Sinan is today universally recognized as the defining figure in the development of the classical Ottoman style...
