List of Ottoman calligraphers

The following is an incomplete list of Ottoman calligraphers:

15th–16th century

• Ahmed Karahisari
• Sheikh Hamdullah
• Kahdi Mahmud Efendi (d. 1575)
• Ahmed Pasa (d. 1611) son of Kahdi Mahmud Efendi
• Mustafa Ali (d. 1600)
• Yûsuf Efendi (d. 1611)
• Abdullah Amâsi- 16th-century calligrapher
• Ahmed Şemseddin Karahisarî (d. 963/1556)
• Gâbârî Adurrahman (d. 974/1566)
• Rizâî Mahmud Baba Efendi (d. 987/1579)
• Mustafa Dede – son of Sheikh Hamdullah (d. 945/1538)
• Tâcîzâde Ca'fer Çelebi (1452–1515) poet, calligrapher and scholar

17th–18th century

• Hâfiz Osman
• Seyyid Kasim Gubari
• Ibrahim Vahdi (d. 1714)
• Ibrahim Afif (d. 1767)
• Egrikapili Mehmed Rasim Efendi
• Ä°smail Zühdi Efendi
• Mehmed Esad Yesari
• Mehmed Rasim (1687–1755)
• Mustafa Kutahi (d. after 1785)
• Musa al-'Abidi
• Yesarizade Mustafa Izzet Efendi
• Derviş Ali
• Veliyyüddin Efendi
• Mehmed Refi Efendi (d. 1769)
• Abdul Rahman Hilmi (d. 1805)
• Yedikuleli Seyyid 'Abdullah Efendi (d. 1731)
• Suyolcuzade Mustafa Eyyubi (1619–1686)
• Mahmud Celaleddin Efendi (c. 1750–1829)
• Esmâ Ibret Hanim (b. 1780) wife of Mahmud Celâleddin Efendi
• Halid Erzurumi (d. 1651)
• Dede Mehmed Efendi (d. 1734)
• Şâbanzâde Mehmed Efendi(d. 1120/1708)
• Dede Mehmed Efendi (d. 1147/1734)
• Adülbâkî -i Tebrîzî (d. 1039/1629-30)
• Kâtibzâde Mehmed Refî (d. 1183/1769)
• Hasan Üsküdârî (d. 1023/1614)
• Hüseyin Hablî (d. 1157/1744)
• Ä°brâhim Rodosî (d. 1201/1787)
• Eski Ä°smâil Zühdü (d. 1144/1731)
• Eğrikapılı Mehmed Râsim (d. 1169/1756)
• Ramazan b. Ä°smâil رمضان بن إسماعيل (d. 1091/1680)
• Tophâneli Mahmued Nûri,(d. 1080/1669)

19th–20th century

• Ali Alparslan (1925–2006)
• Şefik Bey (Mehmed Şefik, 1819–1880)
• Abdullah Zuhudi Effendi (1835–1879)
• Muhsinzade Abdullah Bey (1832–1899)
• Hasan Çelebi (b. 1937)
• Hasan Riza Effendi (1849–1920)
• Kazasker Mustafa Izzet Efendi
• Mehmed Şevkî Efendi (1829–1887)
• Mehmet Şefik (1818–1890)
• Mehmed Sami Efendi (1838–1912)
• Hattat Aziz Efendi
• Mustafa Râkim
• Kayışzâde Hâfız Osman Efendi
• Necmeddîn Okyay (Necmeddîn Üsküdari Efendi, 1883–1976)
• Bakkal Arif Efendi
• Kâmil Akdik
• Neyzen Emîn Efendi
• Halîm Özyazıcı (1898–1964)
• Bekir Pektin (b. 1913)
• Hamid Aytaç
• Ismail Hakkı Altunbezer (1873–1946)
• Mustafa Râkim (Mustafa Raq'im, 1757–1826)
• Çömez Mustafa Vasif (d. 1853)
• Hafız Hasan Tahsin Hilmi Efendi (1847–1912)
• Mustafa Halim Özyazici (alternate spelling: Oyazici) (1898–1964)
• Mustafa Uğur Derman (b. 1935)
• Hafız Mehmed Fehmi Efendi (1860–1915)
• Abdülkadir Şürki Efendi 19th-century calligrapher
• Şeref Adkik (1899–1972)
• Şeyh Ali Bedevî (1868–1943)
• Şeref Akdik (1899–1972)
• Hasan Rizâ Efendi (d. 1890)
• Esad Muhis Paşa (1780–1850)
• Mehmed Hâşim Efendi (d. 1845)
• Mehmed Nazif Bey (1846–1913)
• Kebecizâde Mehmed Vasfi, (d. 1831)
• Çemşîr Hâfız Sâlîh Efendi, (d. 1236/1820–21)
• Laz Ömer Efendi (d. 1240/1825)
• Mehmed Şevket Vahdetî (1833–1871)

See also

• List of Persian calligraphers
• List of Georgian calligraphers

References