Name

Mustafa Izzet

Original name

مصطفى عزت

Main activity

Kazasker

Secondary activity

Calligrapher, Musician, Preacher

Title

Efendi

Name variations

مصطفى العزتي, Muṣṭafā al-ʻIzzātī, Mustafa İzzet"

Education place

Istanbul

Education institution

Mausoleum of ʻAlī Pasha

Activity place

Istanbul, Cairo

Activity institution

Sultanial Palace, Eyüp Sultan Mosque

Activity start date

Activity end date

Place of birth

Tosya

Date of birth

1801

Place of death

Istanbul

Date of death

1876

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/Mu%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%ADaf%C3%A0%20al-%CA%BBIzzat%C4%AB/library

Descriptive card

He was a kazasker (Ottoman military judge), a musician, and a well-known calligrapher. At a young age he was an apprentice in the mausoleum of ʻAlī Pasha in Istanbul, then in the imperial palace during the reign of Sultan Maḥmūd II to study sciences, calligraphy, music; he received the diploma for the calligraphic styles ṯulṯ and nasḫ from Muṣṭafà al-Wāṣif and for the taʻlīq from ʻIzzat Yasārī. He spent a period of his life in Cairo but then moved back to Istanbul where, in 1839, he had the role of preacher in the Eyüp Sultan mosque. Numerous calligraphic works of him have survived, including, a Qur'an copied for Sultan ʻAbd al-Maǧīd (r. 1839-1861) and dated ǧumadā I 1264 H (May 1848) preserved in the Chester Beatty Library (Ms 1568); another copy of the Qur'an signed by him was donated to Vittorio Emanuele II king of Italy in 1869 by the Italian typographer Mosè Castelli, active in Cairo.

Entry author

Sara Fani