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| former_name = Museum of Islamic Endowments| established = 1914| dissolved = | location = Istanbul, Turkey| type = Museum| accreditation = | key_holdings = | collections = | collection_size = | visitors = | founder = | executive_director = | leader_type = | leader = | director = | president = | ceo = | chairperson = | curator = | architect = | historian = | owner = | employees = | publictransit = | parking = | website = | network = | embedded = }}File:Türk vÉ™ Ä°slam É™sÉ™rlÉ™ri muzeyinin yerləşdiyi Parqalı Ä°brahim PaÅŸa sarayının daxili hÉ™yÉ™ti.jpg|thumb|Inner courtyard of Pargalı Ibrahim PashaPargalı Ibrahim PashaThe Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum (}}) is a museum located in Sultanahmet Square in Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey. Constructed in 1524, the building was formerly the palace of Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, who was the second grand vizier to Suleiman the Magnificent, and was once thought to have been the husband of the Sultan’s sister, Hatice Sultan.The collection includes notable examples of Islamic calligraphy, tiles, and rugs as well as ethnographic displays on various cultures in Turkey, particularly nomad 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.WEB, Ä°stanbul - Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum,www.ktb.gov.tr/EN-113954/istanbul---turkish-and-islamic-arts-museum.html, 2020-11-08, www.ktb.gov.tr, 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.WEB, Müze Kart resmi sayfası,muze.gov.tr/, 2020-11-08, T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, tr, The museum is one of the largest museums in Turkey.WEB, Müze Kart resmi sayfası,muze.gov.tr/hakkimizda, 2020-12-05, T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, tr, 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 IstanbulWEB, Museum of Turkish & Islamic Art, Istanbul, Turkey,turkeytravelplanner.com/go/Istanbul/Sights/Sultanahmet/TurkIslamArtMuseum.html, 2020-11-06, Turkey Travel Planner, en-US, . 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.WEB, Discover Islamic Art - Virtual Museum,islamicart.museumwnf.org/pm_partner.php?theme=ISL&id=Mus01;tr, 2020-11-08, islamicart.museumwnf.org, 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 - Unesco for its studies for making the children love the culture inheritance.WEB, Ä°stanbul - Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum,www.ktb.gov.tr/EN-113954/istanbul---turkish-and-islamic-arts-museum.html, 2020-11-08, www.ktb.gov.tr,

History

In 1914 it originally opened as the Museum of Islamic Endowments housed in the Süleymaniye Complex.WEB, The Art of the Qur’an: The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts,asia.si.edu/exhibition/the-art-of-the-quran-the-museum-of-turkish-and-islamic-arts/, 2020-12-05, Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, en-US, Süleymaniye Complex, built by the great Turkish architect Sinan in the 16th century. Eventually, the museum renamed as the 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.BOOK, Shaw, Wendy, Islamic Arts in the Ottoman Imperial Museum, 1889-1923, Freer Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Institution and Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, 2000, 55–68, In 1983 the museum moved to the Ä°brahim 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.WEB, Ä°stanbul - Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum,www.ktb.gov.tr/EN-113954/istanbul---turkish-and-islamic-arts-museum.html, 2020-11-08, www.ktb.gov.tr, The Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum was the first museum in Turkey to include Islamic art togetherWEB, Türk ve Ä°slam Eserleri Müzesi,muze.gov.tr/muze-detay?SectionId=TIE01&DistId=TIE, 2020-12-05, T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, tr, 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.WEB, Ä°stanbul - Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum,www.ktb.gov.tr/EN-113954/istanbul---turkish-and-islamic-arts-museum.html, 2020-11-08, www.ktb.gov.tr,

Exhibitions

In January 2015 the museum closed due to renovation needs and re-opened in April 2015 debuting the new exhibitions.WEB, Museum of Turkish & Islamic Art, Istanbul, Turkey,turkeytravelplanner.com/go/Istanbul/Sights/Sultanahmet/TurkIslamArtMuseum.html, 2020-11-06, Turkey Travel Planner, en-US, The collections major theme surrounds religious art history from the Ottoman Empire during the 20th century.WEB, Discover Islamic Art - Virtual Museum,islamicart.museumwnf.org/pm_partner.php?theme=ISL&id=Mus01;tr, 2020-11-06, islamicart.museumwnf.org, Similarly the National Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts exhibits works of art from the Ottoman Empire includes notable examples of Islamic calligraphy, tiles, and rugs as well as ethnographic displays on various cultures in Turkey, particularly nomad 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 in Damascus, amongst other treasures.WEB, The Art of the Qur’an: The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts,asia.si.edu/exhibition/the-art-of-the-quran-the-museum-of-turkish-and-islamic-arts/, 2020-12-05, Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, en-US, The collection of artworks displayed are arts from the Islamic world that provide an ethnographic 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.BOOK, Komaroff, Linda, Exhibiting the Middle East: Collections and Perceptions of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian Institution and Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, 2000, 1–8,

See also

• Sultanahmet
• Istanbul Archaeology Museum
• Ä°stanbul Modern
• Topkapı Palace

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Collection highlights These are objects from museum that were put at the site of Discover Islamic Art WEB, titleMuseum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, urislamicart.museumwnf.org/pm_museum_items.php?idMus01;tr&linkISL, websiteDiscover Islamic Art, languageen, (at least those, which have image in Wikimedia commons).

File:Hajj certificate, dated 602 AH or 1205 CE, Ayyubid period, Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum.jpg|Pilgrimage proxy scroll, dated 1206. Ayyubid dynastyFile:Turkish and Islamic Museum 7565.jpg|Doors of the Cizre Mosque (doorknob), beginning of the 13th century. Artuqid dynastyFile:Figurative architectural piece Artukid dynasty 13th century.jpg|Figurative architectural fragment, 13th century. Artuqid dynastyFile:Turkish and Islamic Museum 7572.jpg|Plaster relief, 13th-14th century. Sultanate of RumFile:Seljuq Rug from the Alaaddin Mosque in Konya (TIEM 681).jpg|Rug from the Alâeddin Mosque, 13th centuryFile:Illuminated frontispiece from the Mamluk Qur’an (TIEM 450).jpg|Al-Nasir Muhammad Qur’an. Cairo, 1313–1314File:Iznik pottery Miletus ware 15th century.jpg|Miletus ware, 15th centuryFile:XV É™srÉ™ aid Osmanlı mehrab ÅŸamdanı.jpg|Mihrab candlestick made for sultan Bayezid II, c. 1488File:Marble Cenotaph.JPG|Marble Cenotaph from the tomb of Özdemir Bey (d. 1493), Mamluk governor of AleppoFile:Page from the Qur’an manuscript (TIEM 402, f. 259b).jpg|Qur’an manuscript copied by Åžeyh Hamdullah, dated April 1494File:UÅŸak carpet (Bergama).jpg|Holbein carpet, Bergama region, 16th centuryFile:Karahisari.jpg|Calligraphic album (’muraqqa’) of Ahmed Karahisari. Istanbul, c. 1550File:Endowment Charter (’Waqfiyya’) of Haseki Hürrem Sultan (TIEM 2192).jpg|Endowment Charter (’Waqfiyya’) of Haseki Hürrem Sultan. Istanbul, 1556–1557File:Tile Panel with a Picture of the Ka’Ba - Ottoman Period.jpg|Tile Panel with a Picture of the KaabaFile:Zübtetü’t Tevârîh.jpg|Manuscript of Zubdat al-Tawarikh. Istanbul, 1583HürrÉ™m Sultana aid qızıl baÅŸ bÉ™zÉ™yi.jpg|Aigrette holder. Istanbul, 16th centuryFile:Siyer-i Nebi - Aufbruch nach Uhud.jpg|Manuscript of Siyer-i Nebi. Istanbul, 17th centuryFile:Ottoman qiblanuma 1738 CE, Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum Istanbul.jpg|Ottoman qiblanuma, portable astronomical instrument showing the direction to the Ka’ba. Istanbul, 1738File:Tombac ewer.JPG|Ewer and basin set. Istanbul, 1870

References

• ArchNet: Islamic Architecture Community - archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=7708" title="web.archive.org/web/20101214024626archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=7708">Ibrahim Pasha Palace

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• Many pictures from this museum by private photographer
• A 373 page book of the museum as a cooperation of Ministry of Culture and Blue Dome Press
• Turkish photographer Ahmet ErtuÄŸ published the volume Anatolian Carpets: Masterpieces from the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum, Istanbul in 1999

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