Seracettin Sahin

Seracettin Sahin is a specialist in Turkish art history who has served as director of various museums in Turkey. He holds the position of head of the Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul, one of Turkey's foremost cultural institutions. His expertise encompasses the breadth of Turkish and Islamic artistic heritage, and he has applied this knowledge to document the collections and historical significance of major museum holdings. His book Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts: Thirteen Centuries of Glory from the Umayyads surveys the development of Islamic artistic traditions from the early Umayyad period through the centuries of Turkish cultural achievement.