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21-May-2014 Dick Osseman

Bursa Green Tomb May 2014 7462.jpg

On the picture: The cenotaph sarcophagus of Çelebi Sultan Mehmet I.
The calligraphic inscription on the tiles is written in sülüs script. It is four sentences long, sings the praise of the sultan, names his father and grandfather and gives the date of his death (May 1421).

Sülüs (from Arabic: ثلث‎ ṯuluṯ "one-third"), also referred to as ‘thuluth’, is a script variety of Islamic calligraphy invented in Persia, which made its first appearance in the 11th century AD. The straight angular forms of the older Kufic script were replaced in the new script by curved and oblique lines. In Sülüs, one-third of each letter slopes, from which the name (meaning "a third" in Arabic) comes. It is a large and elegant, cursive script, used in medieval times on mosque decorations.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Sources: ‘Vakıf Abideler ve eski Eserler’ - Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü III, Ankara 1983 & Wikipedia.

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