Born Sheikh Musa Azmi, in 1891 in Diyarbakır, his paternal great-grandfather was the calligrapher Adem-i Amidi.
[2] He was one of the final links in the strict master-student system that had been in operation in an unbroken line for 500 years.
Following the war, he opened his own commercial studio in Istanbul which he After the named Hattat Hamid Yazıevi.
[6] He died on 18 May, 1982 and was buried in the Karacaahmet Cemetery of Üsküdar district, Istanbul.
[2] Some of his notable students include Hasan Çelebi, Fuat Bașar and Hashem Muhammad al-Baghdadi.