The Garden of the Mosques: Hafiz Hüseyin Al-Ayvansarayî's Guide to the Muslim Monuments of Ottoman Istanbul (Muqarnas, Supplements) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004259600 ISBN 13: 9789004259607

Publisher: Brill, 1999

Synopsis

This is an annotated translation of what is perhaps the most important Ottoman literary source for the Islamic monuments of the Ottoman capital, Istanbul: Hafız Hüseyin bin Ismail Ayvansarayî's Hadikat al-Cevami (The Garden of Mosques). Long recognized by Turkish scholars as a unique source for the city's architecture and urban form, the text, which was completed in 1195/1780 and revised and enlarged between 1248/1832-33 and 1253/1838 by Ali Sati, contains separate descriptions of each of Istanbul's more than 800 mosques, plus accounts of its medreses, tombs, tekkes and other monuments.
The annotations place each of these buildings within the city's urban plan and provide biographical information about the patrons, architects and other personalities mentioned in the text. An introductory essay gives an account of Ayvansarayî's life and works, describes the various manuscript versions of the text and reviews the cartographic resources available for the study of Istanbul's urban form.

About this title

About the Author

Howard Crane is Professor Emeritus of Islamic art and Near Eastern Archaeology in the Department of History of Art at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, with particular interest in Islamic architecture, and archaeology and textual sources for Islamic art. He has worked in Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, India and western China.

Review

'...makes one of the most important sources of documentation on Ottoman architecture available to a wider audience for the first time. Encyclopedic in its scope and approach.'
Shirine Hamadeh, Journal of Soc. Architect.Historians, 2001.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 9004259600
• ISBN 13: 9789004259607
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 660
• Editor: Crane Howard