İSLAM MEDENİYETİ VE FUAT SEZGİN PROJESİ

İslam Medeniyeti ve Fuat Sezgin Projesi
completion of the “Journeyman Stage” Şehzade
Mosque, he is asked to make a complex for the
Sultan and the construction of the complex begins.
“Suleymaniye”, the most magnificent complex
of Ottoman and Istanbul, was completed in
seven years (1557). What Sinan said “My masterpiece”
and is the mosque he built in Edirne on
behalf of Selim.This is his greatest work. When
this structure was completed, he was eighty-three
years old and was now known as “Koca” because
of his old age. Sinan went on pilgrimage in 1584.
Mimar Sinan continued his influence and guidance
in Ottoman architecture with his students
and his works. Dâvud Ağa, Sedefkâr Mehmed
Ağa’s works produced by students he trained are
an indication of this. Throughout the architectural
life of Mimar Sinan, there are 92 mosques, 52
mosques, 55 madrasahs, 7 darülkurra, 20 tombs,
17 imaret, 3 hospital, 10 bridges, 20 caravanserais,
36 palaces, 8 cellars and 48 baths.
ÖMER HAYYAM
Ömer Hayyâm is one of the most admired poets
and well-known scholars of the East. Hayyâm’s
influence on the development of mathematics
in general and analytical geometry in particular
is enormous. The most important fields that
Hayyâm contributed to are algebra. The equations
that were first discovered by Euclid as a
special case until the second degree were extended
by Ömer Hayyam.
For the first time in the history of mathematics,
Ömer Hayyam classified many algebraic equations
in this field, including third-order cubic
equations. Hayyâm is a poet known for his rubâîs.
The number of rubâîs reflecting its unique style
is around 100. It is the English translations made
by Edward Fitzgerald who introduced Hayyâm to
the West as a poet. Ömer Hayyam is the anonymous
hero of many theories and inventions,
although he has not written many of his works.
Although this great information is not clearly
known in Nîşâbur, it is estimated that he died at
the age of eighty-five in 1131/1132. The name of
Ömer Hayyam was given to a crater on the Moon
in 1970, and a comet that was newly discovered
in 1980.
PİRİ REİS
The information about his life is mostly based
on his writings in Kitab-ı Bahriyye. According to
what he explained here, he worked in the Mediterranean
with his uncle Kemal Reis. In order to
strengthen the navy by Bayezid, Kemal Reis was
invited to the Ottoman service with his ships.As
an experienced sailor, Piri Reis joined the Ottoman
navy with Kemal Reis. Piri Reis was the captain
of his own warship for the first time in the
Ottoman-Venice naval wars that started in 1499.
At the same time, Pîrî Reis took part in sea voyages
such as Moton, Koron, Navarin, Mytilene and
Rhodes between 1495-1510. Piri Reis struggled
in the seas with his uncle to ensure trade security
in the Aegean.
The world maps he drew at the top of
Pîrî Reis’ most important works. Part
of the world map dated 1513 in Gallipoli shows
the coasts of Spain, Portugal and West Africa and
the east coast of the American continent. It is very
important in terms of being the oldest world map
available today. The sources of the map are the
old maps reaching him from the East and West
world and the map of Christopher Columbus.
The second world map he drew between 1528
and 29 shows the north of the Atlantic Ocean and
the shores of North and Central America. These
world maps are made in color and on leather.
Piri Reis gained great fame with his work titled
Kitâb-ı Bahriyye, which is the map of Aegean and
Mediterranean coasts.
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