Şeyh Hamdullah

Şeyh Hamdullah, excerpts from the Hadith , written in Naschī (smaller script) and Sülüs (larger script)

Şeyh Hamdullah or Hamdullah of Amasya ( Ottoman حمد الله الأماسي Hamdullâh-ül Âmâsî , * 1429 in Amasya ; † 1520 in Istanbul ), was one of the earliest and most influential Ottoman calligraphers . Together with his student Hâfız Osman and the later Ahmed Karahisari , he is considered to be one of the three most important calligraphers of Ottoman culture.

Şeyh Hamdullah himself signed his works with İbni'ş Şeyh (son of the Sheikh) or simply with Hamdullah ; during his time in Istanbul he received the honorary title kıblettü'l küttâb ("guiding star of the writers").

Life

Hamdullah was the son of the Sühreverdi - dervish Mustafa Dede from Bukhara . He was born in Amasya, North Anatolia , in the Eslem Hatun district, received religious and literary instruction from Hatib Kasım Efendi and studied calligraphy under Hayreddin Mar'aşi. He belonged to the dervish order of the Zeyniye. He taught calligraphy to Sultan Bayezid II during his time as governor of Amasya and followed him to Istanbul after his accession to the throne, where he became a member of the court. After Bayezid's death, Hamdullah fell out of favor and retired to the countryside in the vicinity of Üsküdar . When Suleyman I ascended the throne in 1520, he called Şeyh Hamdullah back to the court to make a copy of the Koran, which the latter refused due to his age. He died a few months later. Many of his relatives were also calligraphers, the dynasty can be traced back to the 17th century.

Works

Şeyh Hamdullah was an enormously prolific writer, he is the Koran copies , scrolls, albums, calligraphic alphabets (müfredat) receive and prayer books. He designed the monumental inscriptions on the qibla wall of the Çelebi Sultan Mehmed mosque (inaugurated in 1502), the Firuz Ağa mosque near the former hippodrome and for the tekke of the Emir Buhari, a sheikh of the Zeyniye order, the Hamdullah himself belonged to.

He was famous for his mastery in the six canonical scripts of Islamic calligraphy , especially for his work in the Sülüs and Naschī script.

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Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b M. Uğur Deman: Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakıp Sabanı Collection, Istanbul . Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1998, ISBN 978-0-87099-873-7 , pp. 46 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ JM Rogers: The chain of calligraphers. In: Empire of the Sultans. Ottoman art from the collection of Nasser D. Khalili . Azimuth Editions / The Noor Foundation, London 1995, ISBN 2-8306-0120-3 , pp. 230-251 .
↑ ^a ^b J. M. Rogers: Two master calligraphers of the 16th century. In: Empire of the Sultans. Ottoman art from the collection of Nasser D. Khalili . Azimuth Editions / The Noor Foundation, London 1995, ISBN 2-8306-0120-3 , pp. 50 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hamdullah, Şeyh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ottoman calligrapher
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1436
PLACE OF BIRTH	Amasya
DATE OF DEATH	1520
Place of death	Istanbul

[Deman_S46-1] A ^b M. Uğur Deman: Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakıp Sabanı Collection, Istanbul . Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1998, ISBN 978-0-87099-873-7 , pp. 46 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[2] JM Rogers: The chain of calligraphers. In: Empire of the Sultans. Ottoman art from the collection of Nasser D. Khalili . Azimuth Editions / The Noor Foundation, London 1995, ISBN 2-8306-0120-3 , pp. 230-251 .

[Rogers_1995_S50-3] J. M. Rogers: Two master calligraphers of the 16th century. In: Empire of the Sultans. Ottoman art from the collection of Nasser D. Khalili . Azimuth Editions / The Noor Foundation, London 1995, ISBN 2-8306-0120-3 , pp. 50 .