Evaluation of Eyupsultan fountain inscriptions in terms of calligraphy

Istanbul, which was ruled by water, turned into a large construction site for a century both inside and outside the city walls after the conquest. The city was reconstructed and given its Ottoman-Islamic identity. The Eyüpsultan region has been an important religious, cultural and social center due to being the oldest settlement outside the city walls of Istanbul. In addition to mosques, masjids, lodges, madrasahs, schools, prayer rooms, libraries, soup kitchens, baths, tombs and cemeteries, fountains and fountains built in every corner of the region have added great vitality to the region and created a new life center. The inscriptions placed in the most popular sections of the fountains of these structures are an extremely important element in terms of providing historical information about the fountain and the period, as well as witnessing the process of change and transformation in calligraphy over time. Starting from this point, the study, which examines all the fountains located in the Eyüpsultan district and which have survived to the present day with their Arabic script inscriptions, in chronological order, will attempt to examine the development of calligraphy in the Ottoman period between the 16th and 20th centuries. The examination of the fountain inscriptions, which mainly use the sülüs and ta'liq scripts, is quite important as it is a concrete example of how and with what concerns the art of calligraphy was applied periodically. Keywords: Eyüp Sultan, Calligraphy, Fountain, Inscription, Vowel Point.