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There Are Some Things That Are
Really Hard To Explain
When we ask “Could you please tell us about your calligraphic
past” the reply is like a reflex: “There are some
things that are really hard to explain.” Especially, for the performers
of ancient arts explaining some things is really hard.
Because art is a kind of realizing the essence of articles; the
acceptable part of this occupation is not about explaining
the process but occupying yourself fully with it. However,
the Gentleman of calligraphy does not refuse us and tells us
about the ostensible part of his calligraphic past. The esoteric
part of it is heard and experienced by the students of Celebi,
the real experts.
stay where they are. However, human feet are forwardshaped,
indicating that development is a need for him.” His
mind is framed by those thoughts and Celebi gets into this
profession thanks to his love for paper and pencil. As there
was no school, they get most of their education in a place
called madrasah, close to a kind of small classroom in a village
mosque in which village boys are educated by a wise
man. With the idea of “The things uncommon are mostly
valuable.” in mind. “Many students did not have an Alifba 1
book. It is serendipity that my father went to Erzurum and
brought me a holy book when I started to memorize it.
Its pages were all torn and they were almost falling down.
Now, I value that book like Sakal-i Serif.“ 2
“I was born in 1937 at a village in Erzurum. The love for the
material of this profession has begun at my juvenility. But I
did not know where that love was going to take me. Celebi,
starting his word like “That’s why explaining it is hard” and
draws attention to the Turkey of his childhood. “The time was
when Second World War was blasting. Let’s think about life
in one of those villages; imagine there was no road at all. We
could even fail to find a holy book to read. We were the people
living in poverty and need. Not only Erzurum but also the
whole country was in need. There were also bans that caused
us worse problems than the poverty did.”
Hasan Celebi carried on memorizing the holy book as there
was no school at that time. According to Celebi, every human
being needs to have a kind of occupation, to take a trip
whose destination is qualifications that are different from his
inborn skills, in short: “Animal feet are round-shaped, they
When the love of calligraphy dropped to his heart, Celebi
wondered whether there was any relative who was interested
in calligraphy and started to search the lives of his grand
grandfathers. So far as he finds out, there is no one interested
in calligraphy, but knowledge had always been honored
by them. “We figured out that 4-5 of my grandfathers who
were also from an educated social class called `ilmiye sinifi` in
Turkish. My great grandfather had such an education that
would be enough to make him an Islamic glossator. The
father of my father could not get much education due to
World War II. There is a holy book left by them now owned
by my brother but there is no signature on it, I do not know
who wrote it.”
The Way Of Art Passes Through Dersaadet 3
As all kinds of material-spiritual poverty were rushing into
Anatolia, Hasan Celebi comes to Istanbul so as to learn Arabic
Besmele-i Sharifa, written in the Jeli Ta’liq script
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