The Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum ( tr, ) is a museum located in Sultanahmet Square in Fatih district of

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Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. Constructed in 1524, the building was formerly the palace of

Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha ("Ibrahim Pasha of Parga"; c. 1495 – 15 March 1536), also known as Frenk Ibrahim Pasha ("the Westerner"), Makbul Ibrahim Pasha ("the Favorite"), which later changed to Maktul Ibrahim Pasha ("the Executed") after his ex ...

, who was the second grand vizier to

Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman I ( ota, سليمان اول, Süleyman-ı Evvel; tr, I. Süleyman; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Suleiman the Lawgiver ( ota, قانونى سلطان سليمان, Ḳ ...

, and was once thought to have been the husband of the Sultan's sister, Hatice Sultan. The collection includes notable examples of

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tiles Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass. They are generally fixed in place in an array to cover roofs, floors, walls, edges, or o ...

, and

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as well as

ethnographic Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject ...

displays on various cultures in

, particularly

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groups. These displays recreate rooms or dwellings from different time periods and regions. The space utilized for the museum was once a ceremony hall for the original Palace. Many of the sections of the museum contain notable influences from the palaces well kept setting, making it an impressive art sanctuary dedicated to displaying the culture of Islamic art from various periods. The museum houses over 40,000 works of art that range from carpet art, wooden works, and stone art collections. The museum is one of the largest museums in

. The Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum is culturally rich in various areas, including its location, as it sits across from the famous Blue Mosque in Istanbul. The Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum is well respected for its cultivation of art, culture, and history. Over the many years of its existence, the museum has received acknowledgement for being Islamic art hub that narrates the relationship between art history and material culture. The museum was the first to bring together all Islamic arts of Turkey. The museum notably creates and participates in temporary national and international exhibitions since its establishment. In 1984 the museum was awarded Special Jury Award of Museum of the Year Competition of the European Council and a prize given by European Council -

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for its studies for making the children love the culture inheritance.

History

In 1914 it originally opened as the Museum of Islamic Endowments housed in the Süleymaniye Complex. Süleymaniye Complex, built by the great Turkish architect Sinan in the 16th century. Eventually, the museum renamed as th
Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum
after the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923 which shifted society with the status of the nation. Along with the transition of society came its influence in exhibition spaces which shifted from representing the Ottoman Empire and more of the overall Islamic world. As Ottoman museums emerged aligning with Turkish Nationalism Turkish society began adopting Western practices in art. In 1983 the museum moved to the İbrahim Pasha Palace. The well preserved building has architectural influences from the 16th century Ottoman civil architecture. The historic stone building was repaired between 1966- 1983. The Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum was the first museum in Turkey to include Islamic art together The function of the beautiful building has varied from serving as a space for grand viziers, barracks, embassy palace, register office, Janissary band house, sewing workshop and prison.

Exhibitions

In January 2015 the museum closed due to renovation needs and re-opened in April 2015 debuting the new exhibitions. The collections major theme surrounds religious art history from the

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during the 20th century. Similarly the National Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts exhibits works of art from the

includes notable examples of

, and

as well as

displays on various cultures in

, particularly

groups. These displays recreate rooms or dwellings from different time periods and regions.

Current

Today the museum contains some of the finest carpets from the Islamic world as well as over 17,000 manuscripts, plus 3,000 Qur’ans, and 250,000 early Qur’anic fragments from the

Umayyad Mosque The Umayyad Mosque ( ar, الجامع الأموي, al-Jāmiʿ al-Umawī), also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus ( ar, الجامع الدمشق, al-Jāmiʿ al-Damishq), located in the old city of Damascus, the capital of Syria, is one of the ...

in Damascus, amongst other treasures. The collection of artworks displayed are arts from the Islamic world that provide an

approach in the museum. The exhibitions are structured by floor and center around themes such as the first floor is dedicated to Traditional Turkish life and the second floor is dedicated to Islamic art.

Collection highlights

File:Hajj certificate, dated 602 AH or 1205 CE, Ayyubid period, Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum.jpg, Pilgrimage proxy scroll, dated 1206. Ayyubid dynasty File:Turkish and Islamic Museum 7565.jpg, Doors of the

Cizre Cizre (; ar, جَزِيْرَة ٱبْن عُمَر, Jazīrat Ibn ʿUmar, or ''Madinat al-Jazira'', he, גזירא, Gzira, ku, Cizîr, ''Cizîra Botan'', or ''Cizîre'', syr, ܓܙܪܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܘܡܪ, Gāzartā,) is a city in the Cizre Di ...

Mosque (doorknob), beginning of the 13th century.

Artuqid The Artuqid dynasty (alternatively Artukid, Ortoqid, or Ortokid; , pl. ; ; ) was a Turkoman dynasty originated from tribe that ruled in eastern Anatolia, Northern Syria and Northern Iraq in the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. The Art ...

dynasty File:Figurative architectural piece Artukid dynasty 13th century.jpg, Figurative architectural fragment, 13th century. Artuqid dynasty File:Turkish and Islamic Museum 7572.jpg, Plaster relief, 13th-14th century. Sultanate of Rum File:Seljuq Rug from the Alaaddin Mosque in Konya (TIEM 681).jpg, Rug from the

Alâeddin Mosque The Alaaddin Mosque (Turkish: Alaaddin Cami) is the principal monument on Alaaddin Hill (Alaadin Tepesi) in the centre of Konya, Turkey. Part of the hilltop citadel complex that contained the Seljuk Palace, it served as the main prayer hall for ...

, 13th century File:Qur'an manuscritpt. TIEM 538. Folio 152-b.jpg, Uljaytu's Baghdad Qur'an, copied by

Ahmad al-Suhrawardi Ahmad al-Suhrawardi (1256 – 1340), was a Persian calligrapher and musician from Baghdad, who lived in the Ilkhanate era. Belonging to a prominent family of mystics, Ahmad was most likely the grandson of the Sufi master Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-S ...

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...

, 1307-1308 File:Illuminated frontispiece from the Mamluk Qur'an (TIEM 450).jpg,

Al-Nasir Muhammad Al-Malik an-Nasir Nasir ad-Din Muhammad ibn Qalawun ( ar, الملك الناصر ناصر الدين محمد بن قلاوون), commonly known as an-Nasir Muhammad ( ar, الناصر محمد), or by his kunya: Abu al-Ma'ali () or as Ibn Qal ...

Qur'an.

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the Capital city, capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of ...

, 1313-1314 File:Marble Cenotaph.JPG, Marble Cenotaph from the tomb of Özdemir Bey (d. 1493),

Mamluk Mamluk ( ar, مملوك, mamlūk (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural), translated as "one who is owned", meaning " slave", also transliterated as ''Mameluke'', ''mamluq'', ''mamluke'', ''mameluk'', ''mameluke'', ''mamaluke'', or ''marmeluke'') ...

governor of Aleppo File:Ottoman Single-volume Qur'an (TIEM 224, ff.527b-528a).jpg, Qur'an manuscript probably meant for the

Selim I Selim I ( ota, سليم الأول; tr, I. Selim; 10 October 1470 – 22 September 1520), known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute ( tr, links=no, Yavuz Sultan Selim), was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. Despite las ...

(1512-1520), perhaps to celebrate his

conquest Conquest is the act of military subjugation of an enemy by force of arms. Military history provides many examples of conquest: the Roman conquest of Britain, the Mauryan conquest of Afghanistan and of vast areas of the Indian subcontinent, t ...

Egypt and Syria in 1517. Istanbul, dated September 1517. File:Karahisari.jpg, Calligraphic album ('

muraqqa A Muraqqa ( tr, Murakka, ar, مورّقة, fa, مُرَقّع) is an album in book form containing Islamic miniature paintings and specimens of Islamic calligraphy, normally from several different sources, and perhaps other matter. The album ...

') of Ahmed Karahisari. Istanbul, c. 1550 File:Endowment Charter ('Waqfiyya') of Haseki Hürrem Sultan (TIEM 2192).jpg, Endowment Charter ('Waqfiyya') of Haseki

Hürrem Sultan Hurrem Sultan (, ota, خُرّم سلطان, translit=Ḫurrem Sulṭān, tr, Hürrem Sultan, label=Modern Turkish; 1500 – 15 April 1558), also known as Roxelana ( uk, Роксолана}; ), was the chief consort and legal wife of the Ottoma ...

. Istanbul, 1556-1557 File:Tile Panel with a Picture of the Ka'Ba - Ottoman Period.jpg, Tile Panel with a Picture of the Kaaba File:Zübtetü't Tevârîh.jpg, Manuscript of Zubdat al-Tawarikh. Istanbul, 1583 File:Siyer-i Nebi - Aufbruch nach Uhud.jpg, Manuscript of

Siyer-i Nebi The Siyer-i Nebi ( ota, سیر نبی) is an Ottoman Turkish epic on the life of Muhammad, completed around 1388, written by Mustafa (son of Yusuf of Erzurum, known as al-Darir), a Mevlevi dervish on the commission of Sultan Barquq, the Mamluk ...

. Istanbul, c. 1594 File:Ottoman qiblanuma 1738 CE, Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum Istanbul.jpg, Ottoman qiblanuma, portable astronomical instrument showing the direction to the Ka'ba. Istanbul, 1738 File:Tombac ewer.JPG, Ewer and basin set. Istanbul, 1870

References

* ArchNet: Islamic Architecture Community
''Ibrahim Pasha Palace''

External links