{"product_id":"sinan-cagi","title":"Sinan's Age","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDuring his nearly half-century tenure as chief architect of the Ottoman Empire (1539-1588) in its \"classical\" period, Sinan's hundreds of designs and unique architectural style left a lasting mark on an immense imperial geography stretching from the Danube to the Tigris. Recognized as the most famous Ottoman architect of all time, Sinan contributed to the reshaping of Istanbul's world-renowned city skyline. His light-filled, centrally planned domed mosques, often compared to developments in Renaissance Italy, became famous as the chief architect's leading works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSinan's creativity reached its peak, especially in the monumental mosque complexes he built under the patronage of the most distinguished male and female members of the Ottoman ruling elite. In this brand new assessment of Sinan's works, enriched with numerous visual materials, Gülru Necipoğlu challenges stereotypical approaches that portray the chief architect as a \"Turkish Michelangelo\" under the influence of an insatiable urge for artistic experimentation. Necipoğlu's innovative analysis reveals that the wide variety in Sinan's mosque designs was the product of a negotiation process between him and his patrons. As the author shows, the chief architect's multi-layered mosque typology, created as a representative system adapted to the social and regional hierarchies of the Ottoman Empire, was also shaped by the concepts of identity, memory, and etiquette. Interpreted from this perspective, Sinan's mosques and mosque-centered complexes emerge as carriers of previously undefined dimensions of meaning. The Age of Sinan, for the first time, sheds light on the contexts in which the chief architect's works were produced and received, using a rich array of published and unpublished primary sources. This extremely profound and nuanced study on the cultural and social history of Ottoman architecture, reinterpreting the works of a groundbreaking architect in the early modern Mediterranean world within their own contexts, stands out as a fundamental reference work for researchers and students of art and architectural history, as well as for all areas of research related to the Ottoman Empire. In the Turkish translation of the work, the text has been reviewed again, and in this process, some new insights and expanded Ottoman texts have been added to the book by the author. 2006 Fuat Köprülü Book Award (Turkish Studies Association), 2005 Albert Hourani Book Honorable Mention Award (Middle East Studies Association), 2014 Necip Fazıl Idea-Research Award\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39877045420227,"sku":"9786053993087","price":560.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/3950\/7395\/products\/0000000558313-1.jpg?v=1622023463","url":"https:\/\/yemkitabevi.com\/en-us\/products\/sinan-cagi","provider":"YEM Kitabevi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}