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B. BAKIR, et al: The effects of the medical functions on architecture in Süleymaniye Dar’us SIFA 79
of the ottoman DAR’us SIFAS
built an observatory in Tophane in
the period of 3 rd Murad in the years
1574-1595. There were various
astronomy tools, mechanical clocks,
astronomy drawing tools, miters,
rulers, compasses and etc in the
observatory of �stanbul. There were
madrasahs and dar’us sifas in
Manisa, Amasya, Bursa and Edirne
in Anatolia and Trakya on the same
period. There were very rich
libraries serving to the madrasahs
near these or within the body of the
social complex, especially in
Süleymaniye social complex and
Haghia Sophia. Kahya, Erdemir,
Medical Studies and Enstitions in
The Otoman Empire, p. 72-74.
7. Ünver, Süleymaniye Külliyesinde
Darü��ifa, Tıp Medresesi ve
Darül’akakire dair”, Vakıflar
Journal II, Ankara 1942, p. 196.
8. As to its endowment, there were 1
professor, 8 counselors, 1
doorkeeper, 1 ferra�, 1 pointillist in
Süleymaniye Dar’us Sifa and 1
head doctor, 2 doctors, 2 kehhal, 2
surgeons, 2 chemists, 1 drug store
official, 1 steward, 1 doorkeeper, 2
cooks, 1 kaseke�, 4 trustees, 2
ferra�, 4 manservants, 2 laundryen
and a bath attendant in the dar’us
sifa on duty. The fees of the
personnel were provided from the
income of 217 villages, 30 arable
field, 2 districts, 7 mills, 2
fishponds, 2 ports, 1 meadow, 2
farms and 2 islands. Bayat,
“�stanbul Süleymaniye
Darü��ifası”, Ülker Erke’nin
Yorumu ve Fırçasıyla, p. 55. Ünver
read in Ankara Endowments Head
Directorate that the daily wages
given in the dar’us sifa were written
down by Hüsameddin Efendi in the
Sultan Süleyman Hanı Evvel
Endowment of 1557; 1 chemist, 2
chemist helpers, pantry worker,
steward, clerk, tabbahı e�rife (some
people), 4 trustees, 2 laundrymen,
barber, bath attendant… Ünver,
“Süleymaniye Külliyesinde
Darü��ifa…”, Vakıflar Journal II,
p.196-198.
9. Ünver, “Süleymaniye Külliyesinde
Darü��ifa, Tıp medresesi ve
Darül’akakire dair”, Vakıflar
Journal II, p. 198-199.
10. There is a record about taking 4
manservants because of the increase
in the amount of the mental patients
coming to the asylum in a
document dated 1850-1851. Ünver,
“Süleymaniye Külliyesinde
Darü��ifa….”, Vakıflar Journal II,
p205, 206.
11. Kahya, Erdemir, Medical Studies
and Instıtıons ın the Otoman
Empire, p. 79.
12. Cantay, a.g.e., 99.
13. Bayat, A.H. “�stanbul Süleymaniye
Darü��ifası”, Ülker Erke’nin
Yorumu ve Fırçasıyla Türkiye’de
Tarihi Sa�lık Kurumları , 38 th
International History of Medicine
Congress, Editor: Nil Sarı, �stanbul
2002, p.55.
14. There is the list of the recruiting
staff taken from the ruins and from
the constructions on various areas
of the country in handwritten
manuscripts of M. Cevdet,
Seyahatname of Evliya Çelebi and
Tezkeret-ül Bünyan. Ömer Lütfi
Barkan published in 1974 the orders
and records in the account books
that he investigated in the archieves
in the Topkapı Palace. Aslanapa,
Osmanlı Devri Mimarisi, second
edition, 2004, p. 220-228.
15. Today, Süleymaniye maternity
hospital is built on the land of
medicine madrasah. Cantay,
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