Tunus`ta Osmanlı Dönemi Mimarisi (2 Cilt)

Abstract

The Ottoman severeignity began in Tunusia, a country which had been acquainted with Islam in the second half of the seventh century, appoximately nine century after this period. The impressisons of Indolucion-Magrib art are clearly seen in the architectural monuments built up in this period. This tradition continued with all its principles in the thresholds of the Ottoman period, the particularities related with Turkish Art have come to the scene from seventeeth century on. That Country, which has been governed by Turcs for more than 300 years, is equiped with monuments like mosque, medresse, khan zaouia, bath, bazaar, place, barraks, fort, fountain. Some traces pertıaıned to the Ottoman art can be seen in the architectural work built up in Tunusia, a province for from the ottoman authorities at that time. Unlike the previous architectural styles, the country proluced complex structures such as mosque, medresse and torn stationed in the some platform. The impressions of the classical Ottoman architecture can clarly be seen in works such as Mehmet Bey Mosque (Sidi Mahrez Mosque), Bey Tomb, Gureba Mosque Tomb in Djerbe structures widened with semi-domes from the four dırectıens in the middle seting which is covered by a dome. In addition to all these monuments, the same impression is documented by some ornamentations of Iznik ceramics, geometrical compositions, marble minbers, octagonal minarets and so on. There are also mony scriptures in Turkish, in which the names of Ottoman Sultans are written. Even in our times, there can be found some similarites between the living style which is led in Tunusia and that of ours in terms of the way of thinking and weoring. All these similarities show us ample evidence to reflect the Ottoman culture in Tunusia.