Abstract
The scope of architectural historiography has gradually expanded in line with the changing definitions depending on the dynamic relationship and separation of art and architecture throughout the periods, the social structure & worldview affecting architecture and art production, and other dynamics such as religion, politics, economy etc. In this context, architectural historiography, which has come to the fore with its interdisciplinary character in the last period of the 20th century, continues to evolve in the 21st century through the architectural theory that questions architecture together with all kinds of disciplines related to society and environment. The historiography of Sinan's architecture, which is the subject of this study and considered as a methodological review, has also experienced a continuous methodological changes since the 18th century. Especially after 1980, the positivist understanding was moved away and different methodological approaches began to dominate the articles produced about Sinan. This study aims to read phenomenological method through its relationship with the theme and analogy approach as one of the six approaches that Andrew Leach’s has defined to organize the past within the framework of architectural historiography. The study also interprets the potentials of phenomenolohical analysis for deriving an alternative research method.