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Detail from a miniature in the illuminated manuscript <i>Tārīkh-i Sulṭān Sulaymān</i> by the official Ottoman historian Seyyid Lokman that is believed to depict the architect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimar_Sinan" class="extiw" title="en:Mimar Sinan">Mimar Sinan</a> holding a wooden cubit rule. The manuscript was produced during Sinan's lifetime in around 1579; he died in 1588. The foreground of the complete miniature shows the burial tent and the funeral procession for the deceased <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman_the_Magnificent" class="extiw" title="en:Suleiman the Magnificent">Sultan Süleyman</a> who died in 1566. In the background Sinan is shown overseeing the construction of the sultan's mausoleum next to the mausoleum of Süleyman's wife <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCrrem_Sultan" class="extiw" title="en:Hürrem Sultan">Hürrem Sultan</a> who had died in 1558.</div>
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Seyyid Lokman</div>
circa 1579 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1579-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
Necipoğlu, Gülru (2007). "Creation of a national genius: Sinan and the historiography of "classical" Ottoman architecture". <i>Muqarnas</i>. <b>24</b>: 141–183. JSTOR <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25482458">25482458</a> (p. 153 Fig. 7)