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Hilal kazan Hilal kazan is a Turkish associate professor at Istanbul University in the faculty of theology, Islamic history and arts. Hilal does research in History of Islamic and Ottoman Arts. Islamic and Ottoman Calligraphy, Ottoman Court Art Patronage. She is interested in islamic art and is an avid calligrapher who has published several different books and journals about the subject. Her love for calligraphy started as she states; “It was a great honour for me to become his (Hasan Celebi) student. He was one of the first calligraphers who received an ijaza in Ottoman calligraphy during the Republican period of Turkey. When I was an undergraduate student in the 1980s, I became interested in calligraphy and began to study mashk, a specific method in calligraphy,” Hasan Celebi, Hilal’s teacher, is considered a master calligrapher and has been described by Caryle Murphy of The Washington Post as one "of the most celebrated masters of classical Ottoman calligraphy style".

Career
Hilal Kazan currently works at the Faculty of Divinity, Istanbul University. Hilal does research in History of Islamic and Ottoman Arts. Islamic and Ottoman Calligraphy, Ottoman Court Art Patronage. Hilal Kazan is a calligrapher who lives and works in Istanbul. In 2000, she received her ijaza in the thuluth and naskh scripts from Master Hasan Ã‡elebi, one of the few calligraphers of the Republican period, and now has students of her own. Kazan, who has a Ph.D. in Islamic art history, is also a professor at Istanbul University and a published author in the field, having written, most notably, a book on Muslim women calligraphers. She has exhibited her work in many countries including Turkey, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, the United States, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates.The female calligraphers of the Republican period, or in other words the students who were trained by valued mentors and who acted as a bridge between the Ottomans and today, have been also cited in this work. As a result, female calligraphers who have attained their ijāzat also appear in the work.

Dünden Bugüne Hanim Hattatlar / Female Calligraphers Past and Present
This book tackles the issue of under-representation of women artists in the research done on islamic art throughout the ages. Dr.Hilal starts off by outlining the importance of women in social, economic, and political climates throughout the ages, even if they have not gained the recognition they deserve. She gathered information about many different female calligraphers from the time of the first four Caliphs and the Umayyad Caliphate, the ‘Abbasīd Caliphate, Ilkhanids, Safawids, Mughals and Ottomans. Apart from those in Ottoman territories, it also includes women calligraphers from Iran, Baghdad, Samarkand, Egypt, Rakka, Anadalusia, Khorasan, Kirman, Damascus, Tunisia, Kairouan, Lebanon, Esterābād, Al-Quds, Delhi, Haydarābād, Kandahar, Agra and Shiraz. She analyzes the relationships these women had with prominent figures in the field of calligraphy and even the ruling political class. All of this is combined to outline how the general social, political, and economical climate impacted the way in which women interacted with art and were accepted by society