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	Mimar Sinan - All About Turkey
		Sinan, who held the position of chief architect of the palace, which meant being the top manager of construction works of the Ottoman Empire, for nearly 50 years, worked with a large team of assistants consisting of architects and master builders.
		The diameter of the dome which exceeds 31 meters at Selimiye Mosque which Sinan completed when he was 80, is the most significant example of the level of achievement Sinan reached in architecture.
		Sinan's own mausoleum which is located at the north-east part of the Süleymaniye complex on the other hand, is a very plain structure.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /sinan.htm (511 words)

	About Turkey
		Mimar Sinan was an architect who grew up in one of the most splendid periods of the Ottoman State, and who contributed to this era with his works.
		Sinan held the position of chief architect of the palace, which meant being the top manager of construction works of the Ottoman Empire, for nearly 50 years, and worked with a large team of assistants consisting of architects and master builders.
		Sinan's own mausoleum, which is located at the northeast part of the Suleymaniye complex, on the other hand, is a very plain structure.
	www.guidetoturkey.com /aboutturkey/history/mimar_sinan.asp (490 words)

	SINAN PASHA - LoveToKnow Article on SINAN PASHA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 158o Sinan commanded the army against Persia and was appointed grand vizier, but was disgraced and exiled in the following year, owing to the rout of his lieutenant Mahommed Pasha, at Gori, in an attempt to provision the Turkish garrison of Tiflis.
		Bold, overbearing and unscrupulous, Sinan recoiled from no baseness to put a rival out of the way; while his insolence was not confined to foreign ambassadors, but was exercised towards his opponents in the sultans presence.
		Another Sinan Pasha was governor of Anatolia at the time of Mahommed II.s death in 1481.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SI/SINAN_PASHA.htm (766 words)

	Sinan - Great Buildings Online
		Mimar Koca Sinan, the "Great Architect Sinan", was born of Greek Christian parents in Anatolia, Turkey in 1489.
		In 1538 he was appointed Architect of the Abode of Felicity.
		For his mosques, Sinan adopted the design of the Hagia Sophia to create a building in which the central dome would appear weightless and in which the interior surfaces would appear bathed in light.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Sinan.html (253 words)

	. : Mimar Sinan Project Site
		Mimar Sinan was chief architect of the Ottoman Empire between 1538 and 1588, and was responsible for most of the Classical Ottoman mosques surviving to date.
		It is Sinan's mosques, however, that he became the most respected for, developing his own unique style within the history of Islamic architecture with innovative designs and ingenious structural solutions.
		Sinan adapts his designs through elegant solutions of structure and form, solving the the challenging design constraints of difficult site conditions and enormouns space requirements.
	www.arch.columbia.edu /gsap/920 (410 words)

	The Age of Sinan, by Gülru Necipoglu
		Sinan's most influential buildings were his mosque complexes, where his inventive experimentation with light-filled centralized domes, often compared with parallel developments in Renaissance Italy, produced spaces in which the central dome appeared weightless and the interior surfaces bathed in light.
		Seen from this perspective, Sinan's works, with their highly standardized pattern of forms, used in ingeniously varied combinations, acquire dimensions of meaning that had not been previously recognized.
		Sinan was also a successful self-publicist, dictating several versions of an authorised account of his own life to an assistant, and these have remained a key source on his work and his attitudes to it.
	www.cornucopia.net /aboutaos.html (1593 words)

	Rashid al-Din Sinan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sinan was transferred to Syria not long after his first appointment as da'i in the district of Basra, believed to have taken place around 556/1160.
		Sinan did not have any difficulty in finding his contacts in the capital of the Zangids, and if 558/1162 was actually the date of his arrival he probably had the good fortune to arrive when Nur al-Din was absent from the city warring against the Franks.
		If Abu Firas's account of Sinan's arrival at Misyaf and the incidents which preceded his ultimate assumption of the leadership is correct, the possibility arises that Sinan was sent to Syria by the father of Hasan II ('Ala Dhikrihi al-Salam) and subsequently confirmed or appointed as chief da'i by his son.
	www.alamut.com /subj/ideologies/alamut/mirza-Sinan.html (6682 words)

	Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture - Mimar Sinan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This building, situated on one of the hills of İstanbul facing the Golden horn, and built in the name of Süleyman the Magnificent, is one of the symbolic monuments of the period.
		Sinan's own mausoleum which is located at the north - east part of the Süleymaniye complex on the other hand, is a very plain structure.
		While Sinan was maintaining and improving the water supply system of İstanbul, he has built arched aqueducts at several locations within the city.
	www.kultur.gov.tr /portal/default_en.asp?belgeno=1476 (495 words)

	Mimar Sinan 16th
		Mimar Sinan, the Chief of Architects to the Sultans from 1538 to 1588, experimented boldly with domed structure and interior space in a vast array of mosques.
		Sinan was born a Christian, probably Greek, in a village near Kayseri in central Anatolia at the turn of the sixteenth century.
		Sinan was taught the trade of carpentry, at which he clearly excelled.
	mimoza.marmara.edu.tr /~avni/H62SANAT/mimarsinan.hayati.htm (1736 words)

	H62 Mimar Sinan
		Süleymaniye Mosque, Istanbul, Mimar Sinan, 1550-57 This plan, square based and elongated by two half domes, is somewhat similar to Hagia Sophia.
		Because of their steep angle the pendentives are not as dominant as in Sinan's earlier structures.
		Selimiye Mosque, Edirne, Mimar Sinan, 1568-75., Interior of the dome.
	mimoza.marmara.edu.tr /~avni/H62SANAT/mimarsinan (1117 words)

	Sinan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sinan was brought into the imperial service and became a Janissary, serving under Selim I and Suleyman I. In about 1538 he became chief architect for the empire.
		Sinan was intimately familiar with the architecture of Hagia Sophia because he was asked to repair it.
		In Sinan's work there is a move toward partially concealed buttresses, a more extensive use of Iznik tiles and a more open interior space lit by more windows.
	ivory.lm.com /~jdehullu/islam/more_015.htm (256 words)

	ottoman sinan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sinan came to the court of Selim I (r.
		Sinan travelled extensively so he was able to draw from many traditions in his building designs.
		Sinan's patron, Suleyman, (who succeeded Selim I) considered himself the second Solomon (an ancient king known for his greatness) and therefore required equally magnificent buildings.
	newton.uor.edu /facultyfolder/rebecca_brown/old/arth100/Empire/Ottomans/ottsinan.htm (417 words)

	Assassins Among Us
		After the fidai left, Sinan was said to have uncoupled the plate from the neck of the man, whose body was hidden in a space below the floor.
		One of Sinan’s enemies was Saladin, reknowned for his chivalry, who took over Egypt and returned it to the Sunni confession after the death of the last Shiite Caliph.
		Sinan however did send his fidai disguised as Christian monks after Conrad of Montferrat, the titular King of Jerusalem who was rebuilding forces to try to regain the city.
	www.weirdload.com /assassins.html (2461 words)

	Sinan Design \| Islamic Web Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sinan Design specializes in Islamic Web Design serving the world-wide Muslim community, and others.
		From the U.S. to Australia, Canada and the U.K. to the Middle East and the Indian Sub-Continent, Sinan Design has satisfied clients the world over.
		We named our company after the great Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan, whosework is characterized by spiritual ambition and down to s practicality, technical expertise and aesthetic excellence.
	www.sinandesign.com (163 words)

	Sinan Savaskan - Composer
		Sinan Savaskan's output consists of modern orchestral, chamber, and performance arts related contemporary music.
		Sinan Savaskan was the musical director of a film on the life of the Renaissance composer Gesualdo, directed by Bernardo Bertolluci and produced by Jeremy Thomas.
		Sinan Savaskan received a grant of $25 000 from the American foundation for Contemporary Arts Award in 2000.
	www.composer.co.uk /composers/savaskan.html (536 words)

	Ali Saim lgen Sinan Works
		But Sinan left behind few drawings of his plans beyond some cursory elevations.
		Sinan is particularly remembered for his magnificent domed Ottoman Turkish mosques.
		The Sinan school of architecture dominated the Ottoman building up until the middle of the 18th century and still shapes the skyline of Istanbul and other Turkish cities.
	www.imagins.com /MM/Sinan.htm (415 words)

	Sinan Church in St Asaph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sinan church is located in the Parish of Cefn within the beautiful Vale of Clwyd.
		We have a small singing group called the Sinan Singers whose repertoire ranges from Bach to the Beatles and Magnificats to Musicals.
		There is an active Branch of the Mothers' Union based at Sinan which meets once a month on a Thursday.
	www.geocities.com /sinanchurch (104 words)

	Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sinan, whose Christian name was Joseph, was the son of Greek Orthodox parents in Agirnaz, Turkey.
		As the court architect of the Ottoman Sultan, Sinan built three famouses mosques: the 'Sehzade Mosque' and the 'Mosque of Suleiman' both in Istanbul, and the 'Sultan Selim Mosque' at Edirne.
		Like all his mosque constructions they were based on the design of the Hagia Sophia, the 6th century masterpeice of Byzantine architecture.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/persons6_n2/sinan.html (164 words)

	Anatolian Fortnight: Looking for Sinan
		Despite its fame as one of Sinan's architectural masterpieces, the 16th century mosque was hidden amongst a maze of markets, propped on the second floor of what is now a hardware and household goods bazaar.
		For the next 40 years, Sinan constructed such masterpieces the Mosque of Suleyman the Magnificent in Istanbul (built 1550-1557), and the Mosque of Selim II in Edirne (built circa 1570-1574).
		Sinan stayed active as an architect until he died around 1679, when he was approximately 90 years old.
	edwebproject.org /anatolia/istanbul2.html (8267 words)

	Sinan on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sinan al-Shabibi, gouverneur de la banque centrale irakienne La compétition est ouverte en Irak entre banques privées pour.
		ROBERT SULLIVAN Agence France Presse 02-06-2004 Sinan al-Shabibi (L), Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, and Iraqi Finance Minister Kamil al-Gailani (R) answer questions during a press conference 06 February 2004 at the G7 Finance Meetings in Boca Raton, FL.
		ROBERT SULLIVAN Agence France Presse 02-06-2004 Sinan al Shabibi (L), Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, and Iraqi Finance Minister Kamil al-Gailani answer questions during a press conference 06 February 2004 at the G7 Finance Meetings in Boca Raton, FL.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Sinan.asp (840 words)

	Sinan -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		also called Mimar Sinan (Architect Sinan”), or Mimar Koca Sinan (“Great Architect Sinan”) most celebrated of all Ottoman architects, whose ideas, perfected in the construction of mosques and other buildings, served as the basic themes for virtually all later Turkish religious and civic architecture.
		He showed that the position of the Sun's apogee, or farthest point from the Earth, is variable and that annular (central but incomplete) eclipses of the Sun are possible.
		The sanctuary is a large square space, covered by a dome supported by columns placed close to the walls, an innovation at the time.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9067893 (538 words)

	MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Until Eternity...Sinan
		Modern footage is used extensively and comfortably, interwoven with miniatures, paintings and artifacts of the 16th century.
		Sinan was born (c.1590) in a small village near Kayseri, a village dominated by towering Mt. Agirnas and devoted to quarrying and viniculture.
		NEW HORIZONS reenacts Sinan’s early life in Istanbul, his schooling, his training as a Muslim, his years as a Janissary of the Ahi order, his devotion to Haji Bektash, all with modern footage III.
	www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=8406 (216 words)

	Swaziland Infant Nutrition Action Network (SINAN) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		SINAN activities revolve around interest in promoting,supporting and protecting breastfeeding and safe infant feeding practices.
		SINAN has an open and friendly office to telephone or drop by anytime from 0800hrs till 1630hrs, Monday - Friday and a public e-mail address for queries.
		The Swaziland Pilot Operational reseach and community based project: PMTCT Plus concept (PORECO) is an intiative of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in partnership with Swaziland Infant Nutrition Action Network (SINAN).
	www.cango.org.sz /sinan.html (608 words)

	Fodor's Travel Guides \| Forums Messages
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	www.fodors.com /forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=2&tid=34433061&numresponses=42&start=0 (3604 words)

	Necipoglu, G.: The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire.
		Her innovative analysis shows that Sinan's rich variety of mosque designs sprang from a process of negotiation between the architect and his elite patrons, both men and women.
		The Age of Sinan draws on a wealth of primary sources to reveal the chief architect's monuments as bearers of previously unrecognized dimensions of meaning.
		A sophisticated study of the cultural and social history of Ottoman architecture, interpreting the oeuvre of a seminal figure in the early modern eastern Mediterranean world, it is must reading for scholars and students of art history and other fields with an interest in the Ottoman Empire.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /titles/7981.html (389 words)

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