Dr. Bilal Badat

Bilal Badat is an archaeologist and art-historian specialising in the history of Islamic calligraphy. Bilal completed his masters in Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford, and wrote his doctorate on the concept of pedagogy and style in Ottoman calligraphy at the Prince's School of Traditional Arts. As part of his research, Bilal studied calligraphy in Istanbul for over five years under master calligrapher Efdaluddin Kılıç. Currently, Bilal teaches Early and Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture, Ottoman Art and Architecture, and Islamic Calligraphy at the Center for Islamic Theology, University of Tuebingen.