Güzel Sanatlar Enstitüsü Dergisi

Öz

The most important place among Islamic arts is
calligraphy. The 68th Sura of the Holy Qur'an, which contains the words of the
creator and explains all the rules of Islam, the last religion, begins with the
oath to the pen and the writing. This is enough to understand the importance
attached to writing and everything related to writing. The correct writing of
the holy book is one of the advices of Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam. Mosques,
which play an important role in understanding and living the Holy Quran and
making its messages public, are the most important architectural structures of
the Islamic religion. Mosques have been built with different building materials
and aesthetic approaches in all geographies where Islam has spread since the
years Prophet Muhammad was alive. The aim of this study is to give examples of
the inscriptions of Alaeddin Mosque, which is the oldest mosque in Ankara, and
to give information about the Seljukian thuluth which has been used in the
history of Turkish calligraphy for nearly a century. This font type is very
important in the context of being a leading the formation of the Turkish
calligraphy school as we know it today. The photographs used in this article
were taken by the author from the PhD seminar prepared in 2015.