Garden of the Mosques

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.

• PrefaceAbbreviations Note on Translation and Transcription IntroductionVOLUME ONEAli Satı's Preface: The Garden of Mosques Ayvansarayî's Introduction: The Garden of Mosques The Imperial Mosques Account of the Other Mosques of Istanbul The Mosques Outside the Walls of Istanbul and Along the Upper Reaches of the GoldenHorn VOLUME TWOThe Mosques of Kasımpaşa, Galata and the European Shore of the Lower BosphorusThe Mosques of the Upper Bosphorus The Mosques of Üsküdar and Its Environs Glossary Works Cited Index of Mosques, Medreses, Tekkes, Tombs and Other MonumentsIndex of Personal Names, Titles and Terms

'…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.