- Mimar
- his Ottoman title, meaning simply architect
- the janissary
- the soldiery he began in before he became an engineer
- Cappadocia
- his Anatolian homeland, which he left as a young soldier
- the Suleymaniye
- Suleiman's great mosque, which he called the work of his competence
- the Selimiye
- Selim's mosque in Edirne, which he called his masterpiece of perfection
- Edirne
- the Selimiye's city in Rumelia, near the empire's western border
- Istanbul
- the capital of his works, which he filled with buildings
- the dome
- the element all his great works master — the high dome
- three hundred
- the count of works the sources attribute to his hand
- 1588
- the year of his death, after half a century of building
- Anatolia
- his region, from which most of his pupils also came
- the minarets
- his slender lofty towers that gave Istanbul its distinctive skyline
