miracle of Divriği
Subtitle: an essay on the art of Islamic ornamentation in Seljuk times
By: Doğan Kuban
Series: Yapı Kredi yayınları -- 1552; The arts series -- 76; Sanat (Yapı Kredi Yayınları (Firm)) -- 76
Publisher: YKY
Published: 2001
Place of publication: İstanbul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Architecture, Seljuk; Decoration and ornament, Seljuk; Art, Seljuk; Mosques -- Turkey -- Divri{ği; Divriği (Turkey)
Work titles: Divriği mucizesi.
Notes: "In The Miracle of Divriği, Doğan Kuban provides us with a detailed account and description of the Divriği Mosque and Hospital from historical, societal, and artistic perspectives and acquaints us with an architectural masterpiece that has been previously overlooked in world art history.  This unmatched example of Anatolian art is rediscovered with new interpretations and is further enriched with original prints-drawings based on Divriği ornamentation forms by sculptor/painter Ali Teoman Germaner and by the photographs of Ara Gülerand Murat Germen." - Front jacket flap

"Translated by Nancy F. Öztürk - Hazem Abueseifan". - T.p. verso

Includes chronology (p. 221-222)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-224) and index
Table of contents: value: Foreword; value: Acknowledgements; value: Divriği Mosque in the Middle Ages; value: pt. I. Historic and cultural environment; value: Components of city culture; value: Structure; value: Settlement plan and basic architectural design; value: Mosque; value: Hospital; value: Tomb; value: Façades and portals of the structure; value: Minaret; value: Portals; value: Observations on structural techniques; value: Roof elements; value: pt. II. Ornamentalism; value: The Seljuk age; value: The universal ornamentation lexicon of the Seljuk period; value: Geometric ornamentation; value: Symbolic elements and content; value: Symmetry; value: pt. III. Ornamentation of Divriği; value: Portal North portal; value: The portal of the Hospital; value: The West portal of the mosque; value: The East window of the mosque; value: The design of the Mihrab Wall and the Mihrab; value: General Observations on Ornamentation; value: Observations on stone carving technique; value: Minbar; value: pt. IV. Basic artistic references of the Divriği ornamentations; value: Artists; value: pt. V. On Islamic ornamentation in the Middle Ages; value: pt. VI. A comparison between the plastic arts of Divriği and the art of the Middle Ages; value: The aesthetic dimensions of Divriği ornaments; value: Epilogue; value: Notes; value: Present-day condition of the structure and restoration problems; value: Chronology; value: Bibliography; value: Index