Tughra

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Tughra

Ünver Rüstem

Related Terms:

  • Tamgha (abstract seal impression or tribal emblem)

Related Khamseen Videos:

Nancy Micklewright, “Mohamed Zakariya and the Practice of Calligraphy,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 16 November 2023.

Ünver Rüstem, “Nuruosmaniye Mosque and the Ottoman Baroque,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 12 October 2020.

References:

Atıl, Esin. The Age of Süleyman the Magnificent. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; and New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987.

Blair, Sheila. Islamic Calligraphy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. 

Bosworth, C. E., J. Deny, and Muhammad Yusuf Siddiq. “Tughra.” In The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., vol. 10, edited by P. J. Bearman et al., 595–598. Leiden: Brill, 2000.

Derman, M. Uğur. Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakıp Sabancı Collection, Istanbul. New York City: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.

Keskiner, Philippe Bora. “Sultan Ahmed III’s Hadith-Tughra: Uniting the Word of the Prophet and the Imperial Monogram,” İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Yıllığı = Annual of İstanbul Studies 2 (2013): 111–125.

Rogers, J. M., and R. M. Ward. Süleyman the Magnificent. London: British Museum Publications, 1988. 

Umur, Suha. Osmanlı Padişah Tuğraları. Istanbul: Cem Yayınevi, 1980, republished 2011.

Citation:

Ünver Rüstem, “Tughra,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 23 January 2024.

Ünver Rüstem is the Second Decade Society Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Johns Hopkins University. His research centers on the Ottoman Empire in its later centuries and on questions of cross-cultural exchange and interaction. He is the author of Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul (Princeton University Press, 2019) and has published articles and chapters on topics ranging from the reception of illustrated Islamic manuscripts to the funerary art of Ottoman Cyprus. At present, he is working on a new book project that explores the role of costume in Ottoman interactions with Western Europe during the early modern and modern periods.