Book of Buildings: Memoirs of Sinan the Architect - Hardcover

Celebi, Sai Mustafa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9752960170 ISBN 13: 9789752960176

Publisher: Kocbank, 2002

Synopsis

Book of Buildings is the complete critical edition of two important texts, Tezkeritü-‘l-Bünyan and Tezkeritü-‘l-Ebniye, based on Sinan’s own accounts of his life and works.

The text is accompanied by scores of full color photographs of Sinan’s monuments, miniatures illustrating his works, and facsimiles of the original scripts.

For the Ottoman Empire it is works of architecture across the extensive lands which it ruled for over six centuries that mark its cultural identity most indelibly. Today from Bosnia to Yemen, from Iraq to Algeria, and throughout nearly every part of the eastern Mediterranean we find mosques, hans, hamams, bridges, and other buildings representing the achievements of Ottoman civilization and keeping its memory alive. Astonishingly, the majority of these landscapes are the work of A single creative genius, the great master architect of the Ottoman golden age: Sinan. In a lifetime of nearly a century one man created the most outstanding masterpieces of Ottoman architecture, and no other eminent architect left even a fraction of his legacy in terms of sheer numbers.

Cover Illustration: The only portrait of Mimar Sinan. Detail from a miniature in Tarih-I Sultan Süleyman, f.115b; Chester Beatty Library, MS413. 1579-1580

"I hope that those of pure heart who look upon my works from now until the end of time and doomsday will regard me kindly, and when they see the earnestness of my endeavour and dedication remember me in their prayers. May God’s will be done." Sinan

About this title

About the Author:

Sai Mustafa Celebi, Ottoman painter and poet, trained at the Ottoman palace school in the 16th Century. He wrote date inscriptions for many buildings. In addition to Tezkeritü-‘l-Bünyan and Tezkeritü-‘l-Ebniye, he wrote a collection of poetry and a history entitled Ravzatu's - Seladin. He died in Istanbul in 1595.

Translators

Hayati Develi - Associate Professor, Philologist, born in Usak in 1962. He completed his doctoral dissertation on the linguistic features of Evliya Celebi's Seyahatname in 1993. He became an associate professor in 1998. Since 2001 he has lectured at Kultur University in Istanbul.

Priscilla Mary Isin - Mary Isin was born in Nottingham, England, in 1951 and read Philosophy at York University. She has lived in Turkey since 1973 and worked as a translator since 1975. She is also interested in Turkish culinary history and has transcrived and edited an Ottoman Turkish cookery book, , and edited the English translation of an early 19th century German text on turkish confectionery, A King's Confectioner in the Orient, which will be published in the United Kingdom in 2003.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kocbank
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9752960170
• ISBN 13: 9789752960176
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 191