Some parents had vehemently protested an assignment for students to practice calligraphy by writing the shahada, or Muslim statement of faith. While such a dramatic reaction from administrators ...

“Here is the shahada, the Islamic statement of faith, written in Arabic. In the space below, try copying it by hand. This should give you an idea of the artistic complexity of calligraphy.

(Staff) Arabic calligraphy lesson ... According to the original article, the phrase was "the shahada, an Islamic declaration of faith." Why not "Mary had a little lamb" or "the quick brown ...

The parents in Augusta County have reason to be upset over a teacher assigning students the task of tracing the shahada written in calligraphy. But the reason for their outrage is not the reason ...

This calligraphy lesson -- the contents of which students would have to do independent research to understand, something ninth graders aren't wont to do -- focuses not on what the shahada means ...

They had, on one side, a decorative, star-shaped Arabic calligraphy saying: “God, increase my knowledge.” On the other side, they had the text of the Muslim Shahada, the “testimony,” which ...

Riverheads High School teacher Cheryl LaPorte asked students to practice calligraphy by copying an Islamic statement of faith known as the shahada, per CBS News. Some refused, with at least one ...

called a shahada, written on it in Arabic calligraphy "to demonstrate the complex artistry of the written language in the Middle East." He said that the students were "asked to attempt to copy it ...

The Arabic message students were asked to transcribe, "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah," is known as the Shahada and is a common phrase in the Arab world. Saudi ...