Ince Minare Madrasa was built during the reign of the Turkic Seljuk dynasty, who ruled over most of the Islamic world in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, is largely representative of the patronage of other Turkic dynasties in Iran and the eastern Islamic World at that time. The Seljuks appropriated building types (like the madrasa), and construction and decorative techniques that existed in the Iranian part of the Islamic world, in the Byz