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Sinan's Autobiographies: Five Sixteenth-century Texts (Muqarnas, Supplements)

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This is as comprehensive as it gets. As professional as it gets. As well done as it gets. This is a scholarly work and the scholarship is impeccable.It is a great deal less expensive than similar scholarly volumes of comparable importance. The translations are genuinely accomplished and beyond reliable. I could never have schlogged through the original Ottoman[Osmanlici] on my own with all my dictionaries at my side and come anywhere near the scholarly informed readability and insightful reading they present here. I am not an Ottoman language expert so I cannot address the fine points of scholarship, however I have learned more in this volume than I could have in months of reading scholarly articles about Sinan efendi. The apparatus, footnotes, scholarly introductions, history, and references are clearly without any lack, but on the contrary, are as comprehensive as scholarship gets. I haven't I confess, gone through the references and footnotes with a fine tooth comb, but it is there when I need it.

AS a reader, with an interest in the art, achievement and creative legacy of the Masterbuilder Sinan efendi, I cannot recommend this volume more wholeheartedly.