Sheikh Hamdullah was born in 1436 AH in Amasya located in the Ottoman Empire and died in 1520 AH in Istanbul. He was one of the masters of Islamic calligraphy. He devoted his whole life to the art of calligraphy and continued to produce works until he was eighty years old. He created forty-seven Mushafs, the Koran book, and an innumerable number of gifts, some of which are kept in the collection of Topkapi Palace. His inscriptions also decorated Bayezid, Firozaga and Dawood mosques in Istanbul and Bayezid mosque in Erdine.