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Mehmed Şefik

محمد شفيق

– †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Draft card for Mehmed Şefik, the nineteenth-century Ottoman calligrapher; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Roles
calligrapher
Era
The Colonial Era
Region
Anatolia
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Taught
Hasan Rıza Efendi

People and things also explored

Sami Efendi· Istanbul· Hasan Rıza Efendi

Sources

  • al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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islam.museum contributors. “Mehmed Şefik”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/mehmed-sefik-calligrapher/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-20.

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Sami Efendi

Ottoman calligrapher (1838–1912), the last great master of jali ta'liq and jali thuluth. He gave the sultan's tughra its definitive form in the reign of Abdülhamid II, taught calligraphy for many years at the Topkapi Palace, and counted Kâmil Akdik and Hasan Rıza Efendi among his students.