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Çifte Minareli Medrese (Persian: مدرسه اسلامی جفت مناره), literally "Double Minaret Madrasah", is a former medrese located in Sivas, Turkey.[1] It was built in 1271/2. It was commissioned by Shams al-Din Juvayni (Şemseddin Cüveynî, died 1284) an Ilkhanid vizier.[2]
He left a dedicatory inscription on the building:
The construction of this blessed madrasa was ordered by the great statesman, the king of the viziers (ministers) of the world, Shams al-Dīn wa-l-Dunyā Muḥammad b. Muḥammad, the ṣāḥib dīwān, may God perpetuate his rule, in the year 670.
— Foundation inscription by Shams al-Din Juvayni, in AH 670 (1271-1272 CE).[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Çifte Minareli Medrese - Sivas" (in Turkish). Türkiye Kültür Portalı. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
- ^ Islam encyclopaedia {tr}
- ^ Blessing, Patricia (1 January 2020). “Building a Frontier: Architecture in Anatolia under Ilkhanid Rule,” in: Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu and Suzan Yalman (eds) Cultural Encounters in Anatolia in the Medieval Period: The Ilkhanids in Anatolia, symposium proceedings, 21-22 May 2015, Ankara (Ankara: VEKAM Publications, 2020), 65-85. Koç Üniversitesi VEKAM. p. 67.
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