Hamed Al-Amadi .. Turkish genius who returned to the calligraphy Bahaa!

The descent of the Koran on the Arab nation was a motive for codification and writing, this nation, which was characterized by conservation, and weighted on the codification of centuries of long characterized by its instinct, and kept the preservation distinct from writing for a long time until the numbers of readers or preservation of the Koran is steadily decreasing; The new lands or death, which prompted Abu Bakr Siddiq and then Othman bin Affan - may Allah be pleased with them - to write the Koran and then sent to the Islamic countries east and west.

The calligraphy has received special attention since the moments of the codification of the Koran, but in the life of the Prophet - peace be upon him - it was influenced in the news that the Prophet - peace be upon him - made the redemption of prisoners of Badr from the polytheists to teach each of the ten boys Reading and writing [1], and received the words of the ancestors calling for learning to write, but mastery and retouch, such as saying: "Honor your children to write, the writing of the most important things, and the greatest pleasure; you must in good font it is the keys to livelihood" [2].

From this religious and life point of view, Muslims have excelled in learning Arabic calligraphy and developing it in terms of shapes, unanimity, points and seizures, in terms of the materials and tools on which they write and on them, and the types of pens, papers and inks. And others, and best known of these son of the doorman and Ibn Muqla and the only son and Hafez Osman Effendi and Sapphire Almstsami and Afif al-Din Halabi, and thousands of other calligraphers and scientists, and even ministers and sultans!

Arabic writing remained an art dealt with by creators and learned by the elite students. For this reason, private schools were opened, such as in Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The chains of Sindh and the secrets of the workmanship and aesthetics of the writing continued to be transmitted from the first generation in the first and second century. Al-Hasan Al-Basri and to this day, the students are proud of this authentic upper bond.

It is noteworthy that the Arabic script and its beauty were not only linked to the owners of the Arab tongue, but the people of Central Asia, India and the Mongols created this line to suit their culture and their vision, as well as the Turks who showed great calligraphers. In the twentieth century, the calligrapher Hamid al-Amadi, a Kurdish ethnic Turk, has died in the service of Arabic calligraphy, creativity and development in all its forms and types!

Creativity from the womb!

Musa Azmi ibn Zulfiqar Agha was born in the ancient city of Amed in Diyarbakir province in the southeast of Turkey, during the time of Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1891 AD, a father who worked as a butcher, and his grandfather was a calligrapher called Adam Al-Amadi, and as his peers at the time, joined Moses went to his town's writers, learning to read and write, and memorizing something from the Koran, but he drew the attention of his teachers with his passion for painting and the love of calligraphy lessons he was learning by a teacher named Mustafa Akef.

After completing the stage of writers, which corresponds to the primary stage today, he moved to the Roshdy preparatory school in Diyarbakir to complete his career in education, but his passion for learning Arabic calligraphy and his arts and lines made him learn the line of the patch on his teacher and one Effendi, and then learned the third line about Ahmed Helmi teacher He neglected the rest of his studies in other sciences, to fail that year, and his father temporarily prevented him from practicing and learning Arabic calligraphy, but his passion made him continue along his lines, even one of his paintings impressed some Ottoman officials in the city of Diyarbakir and gave him a gift Worth a gold lira, Fatta Joy, and allowed his father to complete the study of calligraphy and learning arts [3].

After completing high school, Hamed or Moussa moved to Istanbul in the hope of benefiting from the presence of Arabic calligraphy giants in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, which was home to folklore, and the greats of the arts, he joined the Faculty of Law, and then left to enroll in the Academy of Arts or "School of precious industries" as it was Called then, to complete the study of the thing I love and annihilated his age; Arabic calligraphy!

However, the death of his father in 1908 forced him to leave university study college, to devote himself to earning, where he joined a teacher of calligraphy at the Ministry of Education, and then moved to work in various government agencies, led by the Military Staff School, where he met the professor of calligraphy Nazif Bey, who completed his apprenticeship on His hands.

The calligrapher Hamed saw the opening of a small calligraphy shop in Istanbul's Cagaloglu district to help him develop and spread his talents in his spare time after his work.However, the common law prohibited the public official from working other than his government work.He changed his name to Hamid in order to avoid cutting his life. In the government, however, he soon became famous, and his shop became a popular destination for customers and lovers of arts and calligraphy, which led to his trial and his dismissal from his government job [4]!

Hamed al-Amadi did not despair, and decided to move from that small shop to another larger shop in the prestigious neighborhoods of Istanbul near the Bab Al-Ali Street, and remained working until his death, and in those long years of nearly ninety years, Hamid Al-Amadi was creative in design and writing, and was able to He develops his innate queen himself, and has established a balance between his hand and his sight in a coordinated way to the fullest extent of coordination; appointed as a fine art lens that captures what you see, and an ingenious hand that paints these radial reflections as they are and in their objective reality [5].

Genius and inspiration!

The young Diyarbakri was accepted and welcomed by the professors of Istanbul, and people rushed to his paintings and works to decorate their homes and mosques with such a breathtaking beauty, inside and outside Turkey, and this masterful calligrapher recounted the great Ottoman calligraphers such as Hafiz Osman, Al-Qara Hesari, Rasim and others.

In his rare dialogue recorded by the Center for Research on Islamic History, Arts and Culture, known as the IRCICA of the Organization of the Islamic Conference a few months before his death, Hamed al-Amadi, on the threshold of his 90s at the time, made an important speech. And his life, and this city of minarets and palaces opened his doors to him to create without borders, says: "Istanbul opened the doors of its treasures and treasures wide, where I saw all the secrets of the East, and high-rise features of our own art, and I saw its taps flowing decorations and beauty; I owe it to me. ”[7]

The genius of Al-Amadi was illustrated in the writing of his paintings and his remarkable journalists in that he imagined the dimensions of what he wanted to draw with precision with a peculiar precision in his mind before embarking on his work. Og Yay came to him with Koranic verses to write and decorate the Grand Mosque of Sisli in Istanbul, so he chose verses from Surah Al-Tawba to do an experimental process by writing them in pencil. Tired, I turned off the lights, and a I closed my eyes so it took a short time to sleep, and while I am also, if I find between dream and vigilance the letters of the thousand and lam come in front of me and then take the appropriate form for them, so I immediately from my sleep excited and disturbed, and ignited the lamp and completed what is formed on me "[8]!

Hamed al-Amadi's works still adorn the mosques of Sisli, Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, Mersin, Haji Kucuk, Kartal, Koca Tepe in Istanbul and the cities of Anatolia as magnificent. His funeral was held at the شيişli Mosque, which was always proud of his writing. His funeral took place on May 20, 1982, in the graves of Istanbul, at the age of 92, leaving a great legacy of disciples and outstanding works!