The Ince Minareli Medrese is built at Konya, c. 663/1264

بناء مدرسة إنجه ميناره بقونية، نحو ٦٦٣هـ

c. 1264 CE · 663 AH

Konya

The Ince Minareli Medrese ('slender-minaret madrasa') at Konya was built about 663/1264-65 by the master Kaluk (Koluk) ibn Abd Allah. Heavily restored, it lost two-thirds of its brick minaret in 1317/1899; the minaret had served as a foil to the portal's giant inscriptive bands 1.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Anatolia

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1250126012701280 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

In space

Konya

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Architecture

Summary

The Ince Minareli Medrese ('slender-minaret madrasa') at Konya was built about 663/1264-65 by the master Kaluk (Koluk) ibn Abd Allah. 1

Minaret and portal

Heavily restored, the madrasa lost two-thirds of its brick minaret in 1317/1899; the minaret had served as a foil to the portal's giant inscriptive bands, developed out of simple decorative forms better suited to wood. 1

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People and things also explored

The Karatay madrasa is built at Konya, 649/1251· Mas'ud I makes Konya the Rum Seljuk capital· The German King's Campaign and His Drowning· Battle of Konya (1832)· The First Crusade passes Konya, 490/1097· Baha al-Din Walad dies; Rumi succeeds him· Death of Rukn al-Din Sulayman II of Rum· Kaykhusraw I's restoration to the Rum Sultanate (600 AH)

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 5.1 p. 289
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islam.museum contributors. “The Ince Minareli Medrese is built at Konya, c. 663/1264”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/konya-ince-minaret-663/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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