Title: Travelers' Works As An Important Source In
Studying Archaeology In Light Of The “Hadji ‘Ali Mosque” Of Athens
Author(s): Ahmed AMEEN
Journal: SHEDET(Annual Peer-Reviewed Journal Issued
By The Faculty Of Archaeology, Fayoum University)
Issue: 2 Date: 2015
Pages: 6-22
Cite as: Ahmed AMEEN. (2015).Travelers' Works As An
Important Source In Studying Archaeology In Light Of The “Hadji ‘Ali Mosque” Of
Athens.SHEDET(Annual Peer-Reviewed Journal Issued By The Faculty Of Archaeology,
Fayoum University), 2 (2015) pp. 6-22. https://doi.org/10.36816/shedet.002.10
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Travelers' Works As An Important Source In Studying
Archaeology In Light Of The “Hadji ‘Ali Mosque” Of Athens
Ahmed AMEEN
Travelers’ works provide us with very wealthy data including maps,
engravings, drawings, inscriptions, accounts, stories etc. These data answer
many questions when studying historical buildings; esp. for those which
destroyed completely or partially. In this context this paper aims to identify
the Hadji ‘Ali Mosque (the so-called KüçükCami). It is located in the
south-eastern part of the Roman Agora of the old City of Athens. This monument
is almost completely absent in any historical-archaeological map of Athens and
in the published studies of the Ottoman monuments of Athens as well. Moreover
the surviving monuments of Ottoman architecture are in general little known and
hardly studied. So this article also aims to clarify, as far as possible, the
history and architecture of an Athenian mosque, the Hadji ‘Ali, through the
surviving traces of the building and with the help of the data provided by many
accounts of travelers to Athens.