Abstract:

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 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.

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