Painting by Atif Ali Islamic calligraphy excelled due to the forms of Arabic letters, composed of dots, lines and curves. These attributes give the artist a freedom to create. The scripts are ...

BERKELEY — Given her family history, Salma Arastu may be one of the last people you’d expect to be helping to modernize Islamic calligraphy. Her Hindu parents fled their home in Pakistan ...

carrying profound significance and conveying messages of monotheism and devotion to Allah SWT. For local calligraphy artist Khairi Izat Amir, his deep passion for the art of calligraphy has fostered a ...

One of the most amazing things about Islamic art is how unstymied that ... to begin composing drawings of animal and people out of calligraphy. This new mode was not a matter of script ...

Osman Hayat, a passionate calligraphy artist, developed a keen interest in drawing from a young age. He practiced Islamic calligraphy with the help of different newspapers and catalogues ...

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 ...

Hajj Wafaa, a professional Islamic calligrapher who teaches at Al-Noor Academy, talks about the characteristics of Arabic calligraphy. Hajj Wafaa, a professional Islamic calligrapher who teaches ...