Author
Qayluq bin Abdullah.
Author Original
قيلوق بن عبد الله
Publication Date
Circa 685-663 / 1260-1265
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Record ID
monument;ISL;tr;Mon01;8;ar
Library Location
Konya, Türkiye
Date
Circa 685-663 / 1260-1265
Notes
Some of the school's rooms no longer exist, but an idea about its original layout can be gleaned from the remaining section and from photographs taken in the early twentieth century. The school was built on a rectangular site with dimensions of approximately 60.23 x 20.30 metres. The eastern part of the northern side is adjacent to the Dhiba Mosque, with one dome and a corridor with two spaces designated for latecomers. In the southeast corner of the portico there is a minaret with two balconies. The entrance, whose basic dimensions are approximately 5.50 x 7.00 meters, expands outward from the middle of the eastern wall of the school. The school rooms are arranged on the northern, southern and eastern sides of the domed courtyard. The northern and southern rooms are rooms for students, while the western side includes two winter rooms separated by an iwan room. It is known that the external buttresses that support the western and southern walls of the iwan were built when the governor Feridpaşa was governor of Konya in 1317/1899, after the collapse of the two winter rooms. The winter rooms, the mosque, and the student rooms were destroyed, except for two on the eastern side of the northern wing. Lightning also struck the minaret of the mosque and it collapsed over the first balcony in the year 1319 / 1901. The entrance located in the center of the eastern side differs from the other entrances built in the same period in terms of shape and decoration. It was built of stone, and was decorated mainly with carvings, with geometric and floral designs as well. It is noteworthy that there are two drawings of artichoke plants within the triangular spaces of the main arch of the entrance. In addition, on the side of the entrance there are two rosette-shaped ornaments on which the architect engraved his name. In one of them we read “Tanfeed Qaylouk” and in the other “Ibn Abdullah.” There is also an entry room with a cross vault between the entrance with a pointed arch and the entrance to the school courtyard. The dome of the school courtyard was supported by fan-shaped triangles, and under the dome, the upper part of which was left open, there is a square basin located in the middle of the courtyard. While the exterior of the building is made of stone, the interior sections are made of brick. The entrances to the student rooms - which no longer exist - were separated from each other by walls. As for the iwan room, located in the middle of the western side of the courtyard, it was roofed with a cylindrical vault. There are, as we imagine, two arches for the winter rooms that protrude above Turkish triangles, but they are not there now either. The decorative work of the school was carried out on the entrance, the dome of the courtyard, and the walls of the rooms facing the courtyard. The entrance to the minaret and its basic structure were also decorated with carved stone, inscriptions, and floral and geometric designs. The decorations of the recessed parts of the windows above the entrances to the student rooms, as well as the base of the dome and the fan-shaped pendentives, consist of floral and geometric designs executed in mosaics. The geometric decoration of the minaret’s body and the surface of the dome was also carried out using glazed and unglazed brickwork. The school was transformed into a stoneworks museum in 1956.
Sample Text
Yekta Demiralp “School of Minaret Spire” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;tr;Mon01;8;ar
