• Silk road transports goods from east to west and west to east…also transported ideas 
• Traveled on camels and horses 
• Spend nights in han or also known as kervansaray 
• Ancient hotels 
• Travelers would have a place to sleep 

*** 7th c. 622

•  is an important date is when islam is introduced and spread 
• muhammads trip from mecca to medina

•  Ummayad
• Abbasid
• Fatimid
• Ayyubid
• Mamluk
• Samanids
• Ghaznavids
• Timurid
• Mughal
• Safavid
• The Great Seljuk
• Anatolian Seljuks
• Ottomans

• great mosque of kairouan
• tunisia late 7th c 
• social space gather to pray
• single floor column and arches not very pleasant intterior space
• no great dome 
• the interior is interrupted by columns

• turks enter anatolia
• ottoman arc
• turske used to be nomadic started to migrate towards the west.. 9th 10th c b/c muslim
• anatolia asian part of turkey
• istanbul used to be part of roman empire
• bylik small city state
• 1453 marks the end of roman empire

islamic 

great or imperial mosque equivalent to a church

• MONUMENTAL 
• Mosque- great or imperial mosque (equivalent to a church)
• Külliye (Complex) - (there ud find a mosque, hospital, fountain)
• Türbe (Mausoleum) -(significant people could be friends of the saltun = the ruler)
• Madrasa (School)
• Caravanserai or Han- hotel
• Hospitals
• Palaces
• Fountains (water is very special to the culture)
• Hamam (Bath)

• Dwellings
• Mosques- sm simple down to earth  
• Cemeteries

• Mihrab (Prayer niche) on the qibla wall
• Minbar (pulpit)
• Hünkâr Mahfili or maqsura (royal box)- for the saltun
• Dikka, dikkah or müezzin mahfili (raised platform where Koran is chanted)
• Son cemaat yeri (portico space for late comers) indoor outdoor open on three sides but has a roof

• It is not possible to talk of a common language - depending on the region it is in it looks different
• Minaret (Not all mosques have minarets although it has become symbolic of this religion)
• No stylistic unity

• Arabic) or columnar mosque (with or without a courtyard) and a flat roof
• Hypostyle with several domes
• Columnar mosque with a mihrab dome
• Bursa T type
• Ottoman mosque with a great dome

• with our without a couryard and a flat roof
• columns and beams 
• flat roof simple sturcture instead of just a beam could be an arch 

• grid of columns with the mihrab dome which is over the niche that points to mecca
• rest of mosque could have multiple domes, could have vaults

• ibn tulun mosque egypt 9th c 
• columnar mosque with a courtyard
• disadvantages
• interrupted int space repetition of coluns on a grid
• qibla wall generally longer side of rectangle 
• gird of columns makes it hard to see the imam
• fountain in the couryard muslims cleam themselves with pray before they enter 

• sivas ulu camii
• the great mosque of sivas
• 1197
• turkey
• sometimes called arabic mosque
• qibla wall across from entranc eon long wall
• flat roof
• columnar grid with arches
• one thin minaret

• esrefoglu mosque beysehir 
• 13th c
• all original wood carving and paint

• the great mosque of xian china
• 14th c
• location 
• culture
• construction technology 
• silk road lead to travel of ideas and arc. 

• great mosque of eski malatya 
• 1224
• valuts
• columnar mosque with a mihrab dome-----very important plan type
• emphazies the significance of the mihrab in prayer instead of having a flat roof
• columns still interub the space - thicker stone is what is avaliable to build
• is significant b/c in the dev of ht eottoman mosque of the one great dome

• konya ince minareli madrasa 
• bursar t plan 
• islamic school or lodgye as well as a mosque
• multifunctional 
• zawiya or iwan type
• iwan is a space that is enclosed on three sides and open on one side
• zawiya place of religious practices and schools 
• large dome in central space
• two smaller domes that accentuate big dome
• valuted space is over the mihrab along the main axis
• known for there portals an dentrances into their buildings
• turkis triangles deal with the square floor plan into a dome (like pendentives)

guy muslim lived in konya founded sufism philosophy

idea that you strip from your desires of every day life

live simple life 

• beautiful tiles in mosques and islamic monuments
• glazed tiles 
• geometric forms
• no iconography in islam no depictions of ppl in a mosque just a play of prayer
• tones of blue an dwhite
• later examples includes some red
• brusa- find turquiose

• muqarnas
• over doors and portals
• multifaceted triangle form
• transitonal arc detail composed of multifaceted series of small niches stacken in several lines where higher project further than one below
• the effect of the se transitional zones is to break down the distinction b/t dome and horizontal bt curved and vertical 
• various materials such as brick stucco stone or wood used 
• tiers higher ones project further out
• functional structural and aesthetic reasons
• used instead of turkish trainables at times
• used in portals
• in interiors stucco
• exarly examples ofun in 10-11th c
• incorporated into various arc members in islam arc
• columns, corbels, minarets, doors, porals, mihrab niches, roofs, vaults, squinches and pendentives, domes, semi domes
• ottoman mihrabs typically had a polygonal plan decorated with glazed tiles and muqarnas terminating the niche
• although some are merely deocrative they have strutrual purpose too
• distribute weigh tof dome onto the four columns in the corners (like pendentives)