Sinan's Autobiographies

Howard Crane is Professor of Near Eastern Art and Archaeology in the Department of History of Art at the Ohio State University.Esra Akın holds a doctorate (2007) in History of Art from Ohio State University. She is the author of Mustafa Âli's Epic Deeds of Artists. A Critical Edition of the Earliest Ottoman Text about the Calligraphers and Painters of the Islamic World (Brill, 2011). Gülru Necipoğlu is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

• Preface: “Sources, Themes, and Cultural Implications of Sinan’s Autobiographies” by Gülru Necipoğlu Authors’ Notes and Acknowledgments Note on TranscriptionAbbreviationsIntroduction . Synopsis of Relationships between Texts and Manuscripts Works CitedAdsız Risale, (AR) [Untitled Treatise]Risāletü'l-Miʿmāriyye, (RM) [Treatise on Architecture]Tuḥfetü'l-Miʿmārīn, (TM) [Choice Gift of the Architects]Tezkiretü’l-Ebniye (TE) [Record of Buildings]Teẕkiretü’l-Bünyān (TB) [Record of Construction]Collations of Tezkiretü’l-Ebniye Collations of Teẕkiretü’l-BünyānNote on the Format of AppendicesAppendix I: Citation Index of Buildings Listed in Tezkiretü’l-EbniyeAppendix II: Sequence of Citations in Inventories Listed in Tezkiretü’l-EbniyeAppendix III: Comparison of Prose Introduction in AR, RM, TM, and TEFacsimiles Index