@article{2025:aldemir:royal_call,
title = {Royal Calligraphers of the Ottoman Dynasty: Insights from the Topkapı Palace Archives},
year = {2025},
note = {This article examines the calligraphic production of Ottoman sultans
from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, drawing on
a corpus of largely unstudied archival inventories. It argues that
royal calligraphy was not only a personal and devotional pursuit but
also a form of dynastic self-fashioning, institutional memory, and
architectural inscription. Beginning with Sultan Ahmed III and
culminating in the reign of Sultan Mehmed VI, the essay traces the
evolution of sultanic calligraphy through its material forms,
instructional contexts, and spatial deployment in sacred sites. It
situates these practices within broader transformations in palace life
and Ottoman visual culture.},
journal = {DIYÂR},
pages = {214--251},
author = {Aldemir, Ayşe},
volume = {6},
number = {2}
}