@article{article_1712210, title={ON SHEIKH HAMDULLAH’S MUṢḤAF WRITING TECHNIQUE}, journal={Amasya İlahiyat Dergisi}, pages={79–108}, year={2025}, DOI={10.18498/amailad.1712210}, author={Yücel, Hasan}, keywords={Mushaf, Mushaf Tarihi, Şeyh Hamdullah, II. Bayezid, tefsir, nesih hattı}, abstract={The study attempts to determine the Muṣḥaf writing technique of the famous Amasya calligrapher Sheikh Hamdullah Efendi by analysing two different Muṣḥafs he wrote. This analysis is planned to be made within the scope of the transformations or changes that occurred in the history of the Muṣḥaf. These transformations or changes can be briefly listed as the addition of the diacritical dots expressing the vowels (harakāt) by Abu’l-Aswad al-Dualī, the addition of the skeleton dots that enable the letters to be distinguished by Nasr b. Asim, the determination of today’s harakāt and dots by Khalil b. Ahmad, the addition of the hemze sign (ء) to the Muṣḥaf by Khalil b. Ahmad again, the addition of stop signs by Muhammad b. Tayfūr al-Sajāwandī, innovations in calligraphy and illumination, and finally the addition of verse numbers. In this respect, the study includes a new methodological approach to the analysis of the Muṣḥaf through the form of analysis it applies. Firstly, the biography of Sheikh Hamdullah will be given in the study. Then, two Muṣḥafs written by Sheikh Hamdullah, will be analysed and introduced. The first of these is the Muṣḥaf in the Topkapı Palace Museum, which Sheikh Hamdullah wrote for Sultan Bayezid II, and the other is the Muṣḥaf in the Ankara Ethnography Museum. Subsequently, these two Muṣḥafs will be analysed technically in terms of whether they contain the aforementioned changes or not. As a result, the technical features of the Mushaf in question will be examined, and it will be evaluated whether Sheikh Hamdullah’s Mushaf adds a new quality to the history of Mushafs. Additionally, it will be discussed whether it has had an influence on the Mushafs written after him. Thus, Sheikh Hamdullah’s Muṣḥaf writing technique will be tried to be revealed. As a result of the findings and evaluations made in the study, it is seen that Sheikh Hamdullah wrote Muṣḥaf by taking into account the transformations or changes that occurred in the history of Muṣḥaf until the period he lived. In addition, it was concluded that Sheikh Hamdullah had a Muṣḥaf writing technique that would take the present Muṣḥaf writing technique one step further, especially in the field of writing style (calligraphy). On the other hand, in the two Muṣḥafs analysed, it was observed that Sheikh Hamdullah used different secâvends from time to time in the same places; it was even found that he added new stop signs or preferred to use fewer stop signs. In this framework, these findings are considered as clues that Sheikh Hamdullah was trying to improve his own writing technique, since it is not known which one of the Muṣḥafs he wrote before.}, number={26}, publisher={Amasya Üniversitesi}