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Calligraphy is derived from the Greek words “Kallos” meaning “beauty” and “Graphein” meaning “to write”. Thousands of years ago, there were no fancy pens or pencils in ancient civilisations like Egypt ...

This exhibition Islamic Calligraphy in Practice;and its companion exhibition,Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an, explore Islamic art’s quintessential art form: calligraphy. In the ...

Faraz Khan is promoting his upcoming course at Rutgers University on Facebook. The ability to read and write Arabic is not a prerequisite for Introduction to the History and Practice of Arabic ...

During a prolific 200-year period in the 14th–16th centuries, four master calligraphers invented one of the most aesthetically refined forms of Persian culture: nasta‘liq, a type of calligraphy so ...

"This booklet was published to coincide with the exhibitions Traces of the calligrapher: Islamic calligraphy in practice, c. 1600-1900 and Writing the word of God: calligraphy and the Qur'an, ...

The state got its first Calligraphy Gallery for Malayalam (it was inaugurated in Thiruvananthapuram on August 2) thanks to Narayana Bhattathiri, better known as artist Bhattathiri, who is credited for ...