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Ahmed Karahisari

أحمد قره حصاري

Draft card for Ahmed Semseddin Karahisari, the celebrated Ottoman calligrapher of Suleiman the Magnificent's era who mastered thuluth and naskh and wrote renowned mushafs, d. 1556; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Roles
writer
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Anatolia
Identifiers
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People and things also explored

Aniconism in Islam· Horse colours and markings in Timurid painting· Tasweer (making and keeping images, and the view on living beings)· The Pisa Griffin· Painting of the Six Kings· Hafiz Osman· Ibrahim Adil Shah II· The Message

Sources

  • al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story. Related

Aniconism in Islam

The avoidance of depicting sentient beings in formal Islamic art, especially in worship; a rule that channelled Islamic art toward calligraphy and ornament.