Yaş:

61

City/ District:

İstanbul

Address:

İstanbul

Phone:

0539 567 74 92

E-mail:

davudbektas@gmail.com

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Davut Bektaş was born in Adana in 1963. He is a graduate of Istanbul University Faculty of Law. Bektaş studied thuluth with Khattat Yusuf Ergün (Erzincanî) in 1981 and started studying thuluth, naskh and ruq’ah with Khattat Hasan Çelebi in 1982. He received his license in 1994. Bektaş started studying ta’liq and diwani with Prof. Ali Alparslan in 2002. He won first prize in jali thuluth and honorable mention in ta’liq style in the International Khatt Competition organized by IRCICA in 1986 and first prize in thuluth in 1993. Bektaş won first prize in the 1^st Islamic World Khatt Festival organized in Tehran in 1997. He was awarded for his khatt plate exhibited in the International Arabic Khatt Art exhibition organized for the second time in 2006 in Sharjah city of the United Arab Emirates. Bektaş still gives classes at Süleymaniye Library and the Classical Turkish Arts Foundation.