Artist

Kazasker Mustafa İzzet Efendi

The calligrapher Mustafa İzzet held the post of kazasker (supreme judge) and was known by this title. He was also a ney player, singer and composer, as well as calligrapher. He studied the ‘six hands’ (sülüs, nesih, muhakkak, reyhani, tevki and rıka) under Mustafa Vasıf (d. 1853), and talik under Yesarizade Mustafa İzzet (d. 1849), and served as calligraphy teacher to the royal princes. He wrote levha (calligraphic panels for hanging on walls) and building inscriptions in the magnified scripts known as celi sülüs and celi talik, and large-scale hilyes (descriptions of the Prophet Muhammad).