![]() 982–1003/1574–1595), who himself refrained from erecting a mosque in Istanbul because of his relatively humble military achievements. ![]() 1 The idea that even the sovereign should be bound by codes of decorum was well enough accepted that ʿĀlī’s dictum-a passage from his famous Counsel for sultans ( Nüṣḥatü’s-selāṭīn)-was intended for no less a reader than Murād III (r. When, in 989/1581, the Ottoman historian Gelibolulu Muṣṭafā ʿĀlī (d. 1008/1600) wrote that only those sultans who had successfully waged holy war should build religious foundations, he was spelling out an attitude that must have been widely shared at the time, and that continues to inform modern perceptions of Ottoman architecture.
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