Мимар Синан — разлика између измена

Прву Синанову биографију написао је турски књижевник и сликар Мустафа Сај Челеби, савременик и лични пријатељ Синанов. Ова биографија појавила се одмах након Синанове смрти, [[1588]]. године. У њој се каже да је Синан рођен у [[Кајсери (вилајет)|Кајсерији]] у [[Кападокија|Кападокији]]. По различитим изворима тврде да је пореклом Јермен,{{sfn|Fletcher|2005|p=138}}<ref name="SAE">Zaryan, ''Sinan'', Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. pp. 385.</ref><ref>Kouymjian, Dickran. "Armenia from the Fall of the Cilician Kingdom (1375) to the Forced Emigration under Shah Abbas (1604)." in ''The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume II: Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century''. [[Ричард Г. Хованисијан|Richard G. Hovannisian]] (ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. {{page|year=1997|isbn = 978-0-312-10168-8|pages=13}}</ref><ref name="Alboyajian1937">Alboyajian (1937), vol. 2. pp. 1533-34.</ref>{{sfn|Jackson|1913|p=143}}{{sfn|Sitwell|1939|p=74}} Албанац<ref name=Cragg>{{harvnb|Cragg|1991|p=120}}</ref>{{sfn|Brown|1942|p=94}} или Грк.<ref>Talbot, Hamlin ''Architecture Through the Ages''. University of Michigan. pp. 208.</ref>{{sfn|Moravcsik|Rosenbaum|1970|p=28}}<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kuiper|first=Kathleen|title=Islamic Art, Literature, and Culture|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group|year=2009|isbn=9781615300976|pages=204}}</ref><ref>Sinan: the grand old master of Ottoman architecture, p. 35, Aptullah Kuran, Institute of Turkish Studies, 1987</ref><ref>Walker, Benjamin and Peter Owen ''Foundations of Islam: the making of a world faith'', 1998, p. 275.</ref><ref name="Goodwin, Godfrey 1971 199">{{harvnb|Goodwin|1971|p=199}}</ref><ref name=" Rogers, J. M. 2006 ">{{Cite book|author=Rogers, J. M. | title = Sinan: Makers of Islamic Civilization. | publisher = I.B.Tauris: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies |year=2006|pages= backcover |isbn = 978-1-84511-096-3 | quote = (Sinan) He was born in Cappadocia, probably into a Greek Christian family. Drafted into the Janissaries during his adolescence, he rapidly gained promotion and distinction as a military engineer. }}</ref>

* {{Cite book|ref=harv|author = Rogers, J. M. | title = Sinan: Makers of Islamic Civilization. | publisher = I.B.Tauris: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies |year=2006|pages= backcover |isbn = 978-1-84511-096-3 | quote = (Sinan) He was born in Cappadocia, probably into a Greek Christian family. Drafted into the Janissaries during his adolescence, he rapidly gained promotion and distinction as a military engineer. }}

* {{Cite book|ref=harv| last=Jackson| first = Thomas Graham| title = Byzantine and Romanesque Architecture, Volume 1|year=1913| publisher = Cambridge University Press|pages= [https://books.google.com/books?id=YjDNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA143 143]|authorlink = Thomas Graham Jackson| quote = They are many of them designed by Sinan, who is said to have been an Armenian}}