Transcultural encounters in medieval Anatolia: The Sungur Ağa Mosque in Niğde

On a gloomy day at the University Library in Cambridge, I was researching the cultural overlaps and built environment in medieval Anatolia when I found myself in the main stacks reading about the Mongol Empire. After a long day reading about the Mongols and their offshoots, such as the Ilkhanids based in Iran and Anatolia, I decided to decompress by finding a book that had nothing to do with the Mongols. I was looking for something more artistic, and I landed upon an impressive work published in 1973 entitled Armenian Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. In it, Sirarpie Der