(1916) “Armenia, her culture and aspirations”, Journal of Race Development7, p. pp. 457–458. “It was an Armenian architect, Sinan, who designed and built the famous Mosque of Adrianople, and the Mosque of Suleyman in Constantinople...”.
al-Lubnānī lil-Dirāsāt, Markaz. (1992) The Beirut review, Issue 3. Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, p. 113.
Brown, Percy. (1942) Indian architecture: (The Islamic period). Taraporevala Sons, p. 94. “… the fame of the leading Ottoman architect, Sinan, having reached his ears, he is reported to have invited certain pupils of this Albanian genius to India to carry out his architectural schemes.”.
Akgündüz Ahmed & Öztürk Said, (2011), Ottoman History, Misperfections and Truths, IUR Press (Islamitische Universiteit Rotterdam), Paĝo 196, rete. Citita el la libro: "According to yet another view, Sinan came from a Christian Turkish family, whose father's name was Abdulmennan and his grandfather's Doğan Yusuf."
