The Four Quls
The Four Quls
Artist
Efdaluddin Kiliç & Dr Gülnihal Küpeli.
Artwork Title & Inspiration
‘The Four Quls’.
Say: Oh you unbelievers, I do not worship what you worship, and you do not worship what I worship, I shall never worship what you worship, nor shall you ever worship what I worship, to you your religion, and to me mine - Qur’an 109.
Say: He is God, One, God, the Self-Subsistent, He begets not, neither is He begotten, and none was ever His like - Qur’an 112.
Say: I take refuge with the Lord of the daybreak, from the evil of what He has created, from the evil of darkness when it gathers, from the evil of the women who blow on knots, and from the evil of an envier when he envies - Qur’an 113.
Say: I take refuge with the Lord of men, the King of men, the God of men, from the evil of the slinking whisperer / who whispers in the souls of men, of jinn and of mankind - Qur’an 114.
Artwork Category
Calligraphy.
Physical Description
Jali Thuluth script using black & red calligraphy inks on ahar paper with gold and mixed coloured paints.
Dimensions
56 x 116 cm.
Country of Origin
Turkey.
LOT 9-S1
Efdaluddin Kiliç
Master Efdaluddin Kiliç (b. 1968, Uskudar, Istanbul) is one of Turkey's foremost masters of calligraphy practicing today.
Master Efdaluddin's works have been exhibited extensively around the world and are also held in a great number of private collections.
After enrolling at Marmara University where he graduated from the Faculty of Divinity, he began his initial studies with Hüsrev Subaşı and Muhittin Serin (in the Rik'a script) and continued with the famous grand master Hasan Çelebi from whom Efdaluddin Kiliç obtained his ijaza (diploma/license) in Thuluth and Naskh scripts in 1993.
Between 1998-1999 Efdaluddin Kiliç prepared a 64m long Thuluth script composition for the Üç Şerefeli Mosque in Edirne and from 1997-2000 Kiliç completed the restoration of twenty pieces of the Egyptian master Seyyid Ibrahim. One of his compositions can be seen in the prayer room of the Cambridge Muslim College where he regularly conducts workshops in calligraphy. Efdaluddin Kiliç continues to teach and practice calligraphy both in Istanbul and abroad.
Dr Gülnihal Küpeli
Dr. Gülnihal Küpeli (b. 1969, Tokat, Turkey) graduated from the Department of Traditional Turkish Handicrafts in the Faculty of Fine Arts from Mimar Sinan University in 1991. She continued her master's and doctoral degrees at Marmara University.
In addition to Islamic illumination (Tezhip) works and academic studies, Dr. Küpeli conducts classical hand drawings (kalemişi) and paper conservation works. She has repaired and illuminated several calligraphy plates of famous Egyptian calligraphy master Seyyid Ibrahim.
Dr. Küpeli has participated in many exhibitions and workshops in Turkey and abroad. Her works can be seen in a number of museum collections such as the Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Turkish Petrol Foundation Museum and Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in the UK. Dr. Küpeli continues to teach at Marmara University as well as producing pieces from her workshop.