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The Jeli Thuluth arangement in the form of a Sultan’s signature (The tuğra form)
prayer but the tablets; I could not do a thing other than looking
at the tablets. I hope Allah will accept my prayers of that Nasuhi Efendi Mosque is actually a Halveti Dervish Lodge
open his perception of calligraphy is by saying “Mehmet
time.” Celebi makes his love of calligraphy evident. and Celebi’s path now overlaps with the path of calligraphy.
“As the mosque was a dervish lodge there were plenty of
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writings. All those strengthened my love for calligraphy.” At
When Celebi started to be a muezzin in Uskudar Mihrimah those times, Celebi had his own calligraphy tries. Saying that
Sultan Mosque in 1956, his love of writing not only keeps “There were those who guided me without knowing it but
following him but it also grows deeper and deeper within I did not know what I was doing and how I needed to do
him. With a sweet smile, he tells us about those days, “There it.” Celebi explains that calligraphy is impossible to perform
were Ya Hakim, Ya Alim, Ya Azim (names of Allah) tablets without a master teaching you how to do it.
on the wall of the mosque, but I need to struggle in order
to read them. I used to try to read them from where I sit A Scenario Without A Plan
but I was not able to do that. In the mornings, I used to explore
the writings on the dome lying on my back when the teacher whom he seeks; he was sure about his teacher`s be-
Even if Hasan Celebi, master of calligraphy, cannot find the
mosque was empty and peaceful; I was trying to copy them ing in Istanbul. As leaving Istanbul would be a kind of accepting
failure for his art, he went to Erzurum as to bring his
with a pencil yet I was failing.
family to Istanbul, too. However he was stuck in an unfortunate
situation which was Coup 1960.
In that manner, days pass and he completes his military service.
His next aim is to continue his profession as a muezzin
by moving to Istanbul and carry on his writing life in his own Celebi was not able to come back to Istanbul at those times
way. Celebi starts to be a muezzin at Mehmet Nasuhi Efendi when Turkey was at war; he had to live 3 years in Erzurum
Mosque again in Uskudar. He underlines the fact that how before coming back to Istanbul. He became a muezzin-imam
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