The Blue Mosque's own visitor education site publishes this article on the mosque's calligraphic program without a named author or a dated edition, so the atlas records neither; it is a live institutional web page rather than a fixed, dated publication. It carries no source-type classification for the same reason: it sits somewhere between a tourist guide and an institutional account, and forcing it into either category would overstate what is actually known about who wrote it. Its strength is that it is the most detailed account found of the roundel inscriptions specifically, naming all five and the Jali Thuluth script, and its identification of the calligrapher is corroborated by the Wikipedia sources on the mosque and on Seyyid Kasim Gubari himself. Its limit is that it is a tourism and education outlet speaking for the mosque's own administration, not an independent scholarly study of the calligraphy.
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Reliability Tier3
An unauthored, undated institutional web page maintained by the mosque's own visitor education site, corroborated against independent Wikipedia sources on the mosque and the calligrapher but itself a tourism and education outlet speaking for the mosque's own administration rather than independent scholarship, hence the tier reflecting a primary institutional web source of uncertain authorship. NotesA visitor-education article specific to the mosque's own calligraphic program: identifies the roundels as massive circular panels hung from the four dome piers, names the five inscriptions (Allah, Muhammad, the four Rightly Guided Caliphs, and the Prophet's grandsons Hasan and Husayn), and names the Jali Thuluth script style. A tourism-and-education outlet rather than a peer-reviewed source, used here because it is the most detailed account of the roundels specifically found, corroborated on the calligrapher's identity by the two Wikipedia sources above.
Citation
Publisherbluemosque.tr
URLhttps://bluemosque.tr/article/the-divine-script/
Source Typereference article
Claims Backed By This Source (23 claims)
This source backs 23 claims across the atlas. As facts: 17 well-attested, 1 open question. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 2 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Open Questions, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 open question, 1 holds, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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