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Description: This course investigates Seljuk architecture in Anatolia (11-14th c.) in terms of its forms, styles, building types, symbolic meanings, regional cahracteristics, social and political background and landscape.
Objective: This course will promote graduate research on history of architecture in medieval Anatolia and will provide students with an overall view on Seljuk architectural culture in Anatolia.
Learning Outcomes: Students will be acquainted with in depth knowledge on Seljuk architecture and historiography on it.
Grading: Final examination 35%; Term paper 45%; Annotated bibliography 10%; Performance in class discussions and attendance 10%.

Weekly Topics:

First Week:
Introduction

Second Week, Lecture 1: Architectural Culture of Anatolia Prior to the Arrival of the Turks and Seljuk Settlements (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Uzay Peker) Readings: Akurgal (1980); Kuban (1965); Sey (1996); Tanyeli (1987), Köprülü (1993), Peker (2006b)

Third Week, Lecture 2: Antecedents in the Neighboring Lands (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Uzay Peker) Readings: Creswell (1989); Denny (1987); Grabar (1987); Peker (1991); Bates (1978b); Kuban (1993); Kuban (2002); Kuran (1980)

Fourth Week, Lecture 3: Towns and Citadels, Civil Architecture and Landscape (Prof. Dr. Ömür Bakırer) Readings: Kuban (1982); Redford (2000); Wolper (1995); Wolper (2003); Tanyeli (1987)

Fifth Week , Lecture 4: Mosque Architecture (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Uzay Peker) Readings: Kuban (2002); Kuran (1971); Kuran (1972); Peker (2006b)

Sixth Week, Lecture 5: Madrasa and Palace Architecture (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Uzay Peker) Readings: Kuran (1969); Sözen (1972); Hillenbrand (2000)

Seventh Week, Lecture 6: Trade, Caravan Routes and Han Buildings (Prof. Dr. Ayşıl Yavuz?) Readings: Rogers (1978); Turan (1946); Yavuz (1997)

Eight Week , Lecture 7: Sect Buildings and Tombs (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Uzay Peker) Readings: Bates (1972); Daneshvari (1986); Tuncer (1986); Kuban (1965)

Nineth Week, Lecture 8: Architectural Symbolism (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Uzay Peker) Readings: Grabar (1980); Grabar (1988); Kuban (1999): Ögel (1994); Peker (1998, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009); Akın (1991);

Tenth Week, Lecture 9: Discussion of historiography and sources on Anatolian Seljuk Architecture and Concluding Remarks Readings: Bakırer (1996); Bates (1978); Crane (1993); Ibn Bibi (1996); Köprülü (1992); Rogers (1978); Peker (2010), Brend (1975).

Final Examination and submission of the term papers

READINGS AND SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR PAPER RESEARCH

*Akın, G (1991) “Tüteklikli Örtü Geleneği: Anadolu Cami ve Tarikat Yapılarında Tüteklikli Örtü,” Vakıflar Dergisi, v. 22, pp. 323- 354
*Akın, G (1985) “Doğu ve Güneydoğu Anadolu’daki Tarihsel Ev Tiplerinde Anlam,” PhD dissertation, İ.T.Ü.
*Akurgal, E. (ed.) (1980) The Art and Architecture of Turkey, Oxford.
*Bakırer, Ö. (1996) “Anadolu Selçuklu Dönemi Yapı Kitabeleri”, V.Milli Selçuklu Kültür ve Medeniyeti Semineri Bildirileri, Konya, 37-51.
*Bates, Ü., (1978) "Women as Patrons of Architecture in Turkey," Women in the Muslim World, ed. L. Beck - N. Keddie, 245-260.
*Bates, Ü., (1978b) "The Impact of the Mongol Invasion on Turkish Architecture," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 9, 23-32.
*Bates, Ü. (1972) “An Introduction to the Study of the Anatolian Türbe and its Inscriptions as Historical Documents,” Sanat Tarihi Yıllığı, II, 1970-71, 73-86.
*Brend, B., (1975-76) “The Patronage of Fahr ad-din Ali ibn al-Husain and the Work of Kaluk ibn Abd Allah in the Development of the Decoration of Portals in the Thirteenth Century Anatolia,” Kubst des Orients, 10, ½, pp. 160-186.
*Cahen, C., (1968) Pre-Ottoman Turkey, trans. J. Jones-Williams, Paris-New York.
*Crane, H. (1993) “Notes on Saldjuq Architectural Patronage in Thirteenth Century Anatolia,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, XXXVI, 1-57.
*Crane, H.(2002) “Notes on Architecture and Patronage in Beylik Anatolia,” Turks, 2, Ankara, 737-744.
*Creswell, K.A.C. (1989) A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture, Essex.
*Daneshvari, A. (1986) Medieval Tomb Towers of Iran: An Iconographical Study, Lexington.
*Denny, W.B. (1987) “Points of Stylistic Contact in the Architecture of Islamic Iran and Anatolia”, Islamic Art, 2, 27-41.
*Doğu - Batı Arası Bir Gökkuşağı: Selçuklu Sikkeleri (A Rainbow Linking East and West: Coins of the Seljuks) (1994) Yapı Kredi Sikke Koleksiyonu Sergileri 2, İstanbul.
*Durukan, A. (2007) Anadolu Selçuklu Dönemi Sanatı Bibliyografyası II (1993-2005), Ankara.
*Durukan, A.- Ünal, M.S. (1994) Anadolu Selçuklu Dönemi Sanatı Bibliyografyası, Ankara.
*Ertuğ, A., (1991) The Seljuks : A Journey Through Anatolian Architecture. text M.M.Brogner; tr. by R.Bragner; photos by E.Widmer, E.Alok, A.Ertuğ, İstanbul.
*Gabriel, Albert, (1940) Voyages archéologiques dans la Turquie orientale, Paris.
*Gabriel, A., (1931) Monuments turcs d'Anatolie, 2 vols, Paris.
*Grabar, O. (1988) “The Iconography of Islamic Architecture,” Content and Context of Visual Arts in the Islamic World, yay. P.P. Soucek, University Park and London, 51-60.
*Grabar, O. (1987) The Formation of Islamic Art, New Haven and London
*Grabar, O. (1980) “Symbol and Signs in Islamic Architecture,” Achitecture as Symbol and Self-Identity, ed. J. G. Katz, Philadelphia, 2-11.
*Hillenbrand, R. (ed.) (2000) Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning, Edinburgh.
*Hillenbrand, R. (ed.) (1982) The Art of the Saljuqs in Iran and Anatolia (Poceedings of a Symposium held in England), Costa Mesa.
*Işın, E., (2001) Alaeddin'in Lambası : Anadolu'da Selçuklu Çağı Sanatı ve Alaeddin Keykubad [Aladdin's Lamp : Sultan Aaeddin Keykubad and the Art of the Anatolian Seljuk] metinler/texts M.Baha Tanman, Samih Rifat; çev. Virginia Taylor Saçlıoğlu. İstanbul.
*İbn Bibi (1996) El Evamirü'l-Ala'iye Fi'l-Umuri'l-Ala'iye (Selçuk Name) I-II, (ed. M.Öztürk), Ankara.
*Köprülü, M.F., (1993) Islam in Anatolia after the Turkish Invasion, trans. and ed. Gary Leiser, Salt Lake City.
*Köprülü, M.F., (1992) The Seljuks of Anatolia: Their History and Culture According to Local Muslim Sources, trans. Gary Leiser. Salt Lake City.
*Kuban, D. (2002) Selçuklu Çağında Anadolu Sanatı, İstanbul.
*Kuban, D., (1999) Divriği Mucizesi: Selçuklular Çağında İslam Bezeme Sanatı Üzerine bir Deneme [Miracle of Divriği], İstanbul.
*Kuban,D. (1993) Batıya Göçün Sanatsal Evreleri, Anadolu’dan Önce Türklerin Sanat Ortaklıkları, İstanbul.
*Kuban, D (1982) Türk ve İslâm Sanatı Üzerine Denemeler, İstanbul.
*Kuban, D. (1965) Anadolu Türk Mimarisinin Kaynak ve Sorunları, İstanbul.
*Kuran, A.(1980) “Anatolian Seljuk Architecture,” The Art and Architecture of Turkey, ed. E. Akurgal, Oxford, 80-110.
*Kuran, A., (1972) "Anadolu'da Ahşap Sütunlu Selçuklu Mimarisi," Malazgirt Armağanı, Ankara, pp. .179-186.
*Kuran, A.(1971) “Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Mosques in Turkey,” Archaeology, 24/3, 234-254.
*Kuran, A., (1969) Anadolu Medreseleri, I, Ankara.
*Ögel, S. (1994) Anadolu’nun Selçuklu Çehresi, İstanbul.
*Ögel, S. (1987) Anadolu Selçuklularının Taş Tezyinatı, Ankara, 1987.
*Peker, A U. (2009) “Anadolu Selçuklu Mimari Tasarımını Etkileyen Evren ve Estetik Anlayışı,” Anadolu Selçuklu Şehirleri ve Uygarlığı Sempozyumu 7-8 Ekim 2008, Bildiriler, ed. A. Esen, Haşim Karpuz, O. Eravşar, Konya, pp. 85-107.
*Peker, A.U. (2008) “The Concept of Beauty from Plotinus to St. Augustine and Ghazzali, and Art of Abstraction in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean,” XVII. Congress of Aesthetics: Aesthetics Bridging Cultures, Congress Book 1, ed. Jale Erzen, Ankara, pp. 109-114
*Peker, A.U. (2007) “Taklidin Estetiği: Anadolu Selçuklu Mimarisinin Mimesis Kavramı Üzerinden Okunması,” Türkiye’de Estetik: Türkiye Estetik Kongresi Bildirileri, ed. Jale Erzen, Pelin Yoncacı, Ankara, pp. 563-571.
*Peker, A.U. (2006) “Evrenin Binasi: Mimarîde Yazı ve Kozmolojik Anlam,” Anadolu Selçuklu Uygarlığı: Mimarlık ve Sanat, A. U. Peker – K. Bilici (eds.) Ankara, 2006, pp. 31-41.
*Peker, A.U. (2006b) “Anadolu Bazilika Geleneği ve Anıtsal Mimariye Etkisi,” Anadolu Selçuklu Uygarlığı: Mimarlık ve Sanat, A. U. Peker – K. Bilici (eds.) Ankara, pp. . 55-65.
*Peker, A.U. - Bilici, K. (eds.) (2006c) Anadolu Selçuklu Uygarlığı: Mimarlık ve Sanat, Ankara.
*Peker, A.U. (2000) "Anadolu'nun Onüçüncü Yüzyılını Anlamak," Semra Ögel'e Armağan: Mimarlık ve Sanat Tarihi Yazıları, İstanbul Technical University, Graduate Program in Architectural History (İstanbul: Ege Yayınları, 2000), pp. . 107-119.
*Peker, A.U. (1998) "Ortaçağ Anadolu Mimarisinde Anlam," Arkeoloji ve Sanat, XX/85, 29-38.
*Peker, A.U. (1991) "The Monumental Iwan: A Symbolic Space or A Functional Device?" Journal of the M.E.T.U. Faculty of Architecture, XI/1-2, 1991 (Ankara), pp. 5-19.
*Peker, A.U., “Anadolu Selçuklu Mimari Tarihinde Anlam Araştırmaları,” Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi, 7/13, (2009), pp67-80.
*Peker, A.U. (2010b) “A Pearl in Custody: Long Forgotten Symbolism in the Great Mosque and Hospital at Divriği,” to be published in Anthropology, Archaeology and Heritage in the Balkans and Anatolia or The Life and Times of F.W. Hasluck (1878-1920) University of Wales (Gregynog, 6th-9th May 2006).
*Rice, T. T. (1961) The Seljuks in Asia Minor, New York.
*Redford, S. (2000) Landscape and the State in Medieval Anatolia: Seljuk Gardens and Pavilions of Alanya, Turkey, Oxford.
*Redford, S. (1993) “The Seljuqs of Rum and the Antique,” Muqarnas, v. 10, pp. 148-156.
*Redford, S. (1993b) “Thirteenth-Century Rum Seljuq Palaces and Palace Imagery,” Ars Orientalis, v 23, pp. 219-227.
*Roxburg, D. J. (Ed.) (2005) Turks: Journey of A Thousand Years, 600-1600, London.
*Rogers, J.J. (1978) “Royal Caravanserai and Royal Inscriptions in Seldjuk Anatolia,” Atatürk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Araştırma Dergisi, in memoriam A.L. Gabriel, Erzurum, 397-432.
*Rogers, J. M. (1976) “Waqs and Patronage in the Seljuk Anatolia: The Epigraphic Evidence”, Anatolian Studies, XXVI, 69-103.
*Sey, Yıldız (ed.) (1996) Tarihten Günümüze Anadolu'da Konut ve Yerleşme [Housing and Settlement in Anatolia: A Historical Perspective], İstanbul.
*Sinclair, T.A. (1989) Eastern Turkey: An Architectural and Archaeological Survey, III, London.
*Sönmez, Zeki, Başlangıcından 16. Yüzyıla Kadar Anadolu Türk-İslam Mimarisinde Sanatçılar, Ankara, 1995
*Sözen, M. (1972) Anadolu Medreseleri, İstanbul.
*Tanyeli, U. (1987) “Anadolu-Türk Kentinde Fiziksel Yapının Evrim Süreci,” Doktora Tezi İstanbul.
*Tuncer, O. C. (1986) Anadolu Kümbetleri, Ankara.
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*Turan, O. (1946) “Selçuk Kervansarayları”, Belleten, X/39, Ankara, 471-496.
*Watson, W (ed.) The Art of Iran and Anatolia from the 11th to the 13th c. A.D.. Colloquies on Art and Architecture in Asia, no.4, London S.O.A.S., 1974.
*Wolper, E.S. (2005) “Understanding the Public Face of Piety: Philanthrophy and Architecture in Late Seljuk Anatolia,” Mésogeios, 2005, v. 25-26, pp. 311-336.
*Wolper, E.S., (2003) Cities and Saints: Sufism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Medieval Anatolia, Pennsylvania, 2003.
*Wolper, E.S. (1995) “The Politics of Patronage: Political Change and the Construction of Dervish Lodges in Sivas,” Muqarnas, v. 12, pp. 39-47.
*Yavuz, A. T. (1997) “The Concepts That Shape Anatolian Seljuk Caravanserais”, Muqarnas, 14,
*Yavuz, A. T. (1997b) “Anadolu Selçuklu Dönemi Kervansarayları Üzerinde Çalışmalar, Bilgiler, Bulgular–1997,” Uluslararası Dördüncü Türk Kültürü Kongresi Bildirileri (4-7 Kasım, 1997 Ankara).