Islamic calligraphy was developed from Arabic writing that predates Islam. Calligraphy is used as a marker of religious and intellectual cultivation, and is used to inscribe the word of God through ...

A Virginia school district is defending a classroom assignment that required students to practice calligraphy by writing the Muslim statement of faith, “There is no god but Allah. Muhammad is the ...

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, resettling ...

Introduction: Axes -- Part I. A History of Mirror Writing: 1. Perspectives : Previous Scholarship on Mirror Writing -- 2. Foundations : The Practice of Mirror Writing -- 3. Orientations : Reversed and ...

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 ...

The Islamic Arts Society has become a fixture in Houston's cultural landscape through its annual Islamic Arts Festival. This year’s event will take place Nov. 15-16 at the University of Houston. With ...

Skokie artist celebrates opening of downtown gallery and storefront Creation Z, specializing in Islamic wall art and ...

As Arab American Heritage Month is celebrated, one Northern California artist is keeping the centuries-old tradition of Islamic calligraphy alive, one carefully measured stroke at a time. Sehar ...

Based in Turkey, the Islamic scholar Yamamoto Naoki has a front-row seat to witness the popularity of Japanese culture in the Middle East. His explorations of the overlapping sensibilities of Arabic ...