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 ...

(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 ...

The snow was a great chemistry of spirit and virtually recited ninety-nine attributes of Allah written in Kufi script by the artist. A national excellence award 1999 winner with the late Ashfaq ...

In the calligraphers’ works, the audience could see beautiful compositions, written in Kufi, Naskh and Nastaleeq, which are some of the different styles of Arabic calligraphy. According to the ...

Joumana Medlej's Arabic Kufi calligraphy of the Christian text from 1 Corinthians which begins "Love is patient, love is kind", drawing on a Middle Eastern Christian tradition of Arabic bibles ...