TY - JOUR T1 - Muqarnas AU - Turan, Yasemin AU - Şahin, Cengiz PY - 2022 DA - September JF - Digital international journal of Architecture Art Heritage JO - JAH PB - Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University WT - DergiPark SN - 2822-437X SP - 47 EP - 68 VL - 1 IS - 1 LA - en AB - Muqarnas, which is one of the basic parts of traditional Islamic architecture and Islamic art, has its own important features in terms of usage areas. Although from the perspective of Islamic art history, Islamic architecture and Turkish-Islamic Architecture it is both structural and artistic visual feast unfortunately not much work has been done on muqarnas. For this reason, the aim of this study is to eliminate this deficiency in the literature, in the light of the relevant literature, especially from the perspective of Fatih Uluengin’s historic work titled "Stalactite Plans Trench" presented at the First Turkish Arts Congress (Ankara 19-24 October 1959). The following issues will be addressed in this study;• What is muqarnas?• Where was Muqarnas found?• Where is muqarnas used?• and Muqarnas design KW - muqarnas KW - geometric design KW - islamic architecture KW - islamic geometry KW - pattern KW - islamic pattern CR - AL-KASHI GHAYATH AD-DIN JAMSHID BIN MASUD BIN MAHMUD, N.D. Miftahü'l Hisâb. n/a, Kalkota. CR - DOLD-SAMPLONIUS, Y, 1992. Practical Arabic Mathematics: Measuring the Muqamas by al-Eshi. Crriiuirriu 1992. VOI 35- pp 193-242. CR - GLOSARIOARQUITECTONICO, N.D. https://www.glosarioarquitectonico.com/ORCID: 0000-0002-3443-462X. CR - MÜLAYIM SELÇUK, 2006. Mukarnas. Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm Ansiklopedisi (TDVİA). c.31, TDV, Ankara, 2006, s.126; Doris Behrens-Abouseif, “Mukarnas”, Encycolopaedia of Islam, c.VII, Brill, Leiden, 1998,s.501; Andrew Petersen, Dictionary of Islamic Architecture, Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT, London1996, s.206. CR - ULUENGIN FATIH, 1959. Stalaktik Planların Hendesesi. Milletlerarası Birinci Türk Sanatları Kongresi Bildiri Kitabı Ankara s.19-24 Ekim. CR - YILDIZ İRFAN, 2011. Medeniyetler Mirası Diyarbakır Mimarisi. Diyarbakir Valiliği Kültür Ve Sanat Yayinlari-3, s. 202. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jah/issue//1146495 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/2549380 ER -