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This is an annotated translation of what is perhaps the most important Ottoman literary source for the architectural monuments and urban form of the Ottoman capital, Istanbul: Hafız Hüseyin bin Ismail Ayvansarayî's Hadikat al-Cevami (The Garden of Mosques). There are also separate descriptions of each of Istanbul's more than 800 mosques, plus accounts of its medreses, tombs, tekkes and other pious foundations.

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' 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.

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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.

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