★★★★★ "Beautiful and fits perfectly." — Linda
★★★★★ "Turned up quickly & carefully wrapped." — Peter
★★★★★ "So easy to put on. Looks and feels wonderful." — Máire
★★★★★ "Great quality! Looks exactly as expected." — Marcia
★★★★★ "Dropped my phone badly — phone and case are intact!" — Fabi
★★★★★ "Communication throughout was stellar!" — Mary
★★★★★ "Beautiful and fits perfectly." — Linda
★★★★★ "Turned up quickly & carefully wrapped." — Peter
★★★★★ "So easy to put on. Looks and feels wonderful." — Máire
★★★★★ "Great quality! Looks exactly as expected." — Marcia
★★★★★ "Dropped my phone badly — phone and case are intact!" — Fabi
★★★★★ "Communication throughout was stellar!" — Mary
★★★★★ "Beautiful and fits perfectly." — Linda
★★★★★ "Turned up quickly & carefully wrapped." — Peter
★★★★★ "So easy to put on. Looks and feels wonderful." — Máire
★★★★★ "Great quality! Looks exactly as expected." — Marcia
★★★★★ "Dropped my phone badly — phone and case are intact!" — Fabi
★★★★★ "Communication throughout was stellar!" — Mary

Theologian with Koran - Osman Hamdi Bey iPhone Case

$45USD

He leans in—not to the page, but to thought itself. One hand lifts toward his temple, caught between grasping knowledge and being grasped by it. Draped in a citrine robe, the scholar sits among scripts older than empire.

Osman Hamdi Bey paints him not as a relic of Orientalist fantasy, but as an autonomous agent deep in interpretive labor. The decorative wooden lectern glows with inlaid geometry, catching light like a mosaic in mid-sentence. Beside him: torn parchment, a footnote that once mattered. Behind: a teal wall, cracked and matte, holding history without effort. While the patterned carpet underfoot evokes Istanbul’s eternal memory. 

This Osman Hamdi Bey iPhone case carries 19th-century Ottoman painting and Islamic School art into the digital now. The theologian isn't framed for spectacle—but mid-thought, mid-verse, mid-world. A handheld museum of painted intention. Your phone becomes the scholar’s companion.

Artist Biography

Osman Hamdi Bey (1842–1910) was not simply a painter—he was a nation-builder in brushstrokes and bones. A polymath of the late Ottoman Empire, he founded the Istanbul Archaeology Museums, the Academy of Fine Arts, and pioneered Turkey’s first antiquities laws. Trained in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Gustave Boulanger, Hamdi absorbed the syntax of Orientalism only to reverse its gaze. His canvases gave Ottoman subjects agency—scholars, readers, prophets, daughters—not just spectacle.

He painted satire with reverence, threading metaphor and self-portrait into a nation’s uneasy march toward modernity. As the Empire’s first scientifically trained archaeologist, he led landmark digs in Nemrut Dağı and Sidon, recovering sarcophagi that rivaled Europe's looted treasures—yet stayed in Istanbul, in the museum he built.

While his peers exoticized the East for European salons, Osman Hamdi painted with precision and protest. He turned the orientalist mirror inward, and in doing so, redrew the map of Turkish art, museology, and identity.


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Your new treasure gets produced after you purchase at print labs across the USA, UK, EU & AUS. Significantly reducing landfill waste by only making things people actually want.

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USA: 4-9 days • Canada: 5-12 days • UK: 4-9 days • Europe: 5-10 days • Australia: 4-9 days • New Zealand: 5-12 days • Rest of the world: 3-4 weeks

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About This Treasure

• Gloss for a lustrous statement.

• Matte for timeless, velvety refinement.

• Precise fit: tailored to your device

• Art won't fade, crack or peel

REACH, RoHS and TÜV Rheinland certified non-toxic.

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Made new in 2-3 days

Printed in US, UK, EU & AUS

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Gloss for a lustrous statement

Matte for timeless refinement

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Precise fit: tailored to your device

Open access to ports/buttons

Art won't fade, crack or peel

Raised rim guards screen/camera

Snap on/off with ease

REACH, RoHS, and TÜV Rheinland certified non-toxic

Bluetooth/MagSafe compatible. MagSafe ring not included

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