The Age of Sinan:
Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire
Gülru Necipoglu
Architectural drawings and photographs of Sinan's works by Arben N. Arapi and Reha Günay.

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"An historical and sociological tour de force, this book is written--and written very well--with authority, skill, and grace. The scholarship is of the highest order. Gülru Necipoglu is simply the most technically accomplished, historically minded, and most important historian of Islamic art working today. This book will become the definitive study of Sinan--and of his age in cultural production."--Cornell H. Fleischer, University of Chicago, author of Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Ali (1541-1600)

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