Arabic Calligraphy WorkshopsJuly 11, 2015Arts Council of Princeton Calligraphy Workshop at Princeton Shopping CenterAugust 13, 2015Princeton Shopping Center5:30 p.m. Light Art Calligraphy ...

Calligraphy and abstraction offered artists a means to reinterpret Islamic material traditions and expressions of spirituality that had previously been marginalised in the region’s modern art history.

In most cases, they say, calligraphy is being taught by Arabic-language teachers, not calligraphy experts. “The 12,000 yearly calligraphy graduates should be the ones teaching the art, since they ...

It was in Iran that Arastu first encountered Islamic calligraphy, stylized writing of verses from the Quran or the sayings of the prophet Muhammad in Arabic script.

Islamic calligraphy dates from that same period, but it turned plain Arabic script into a sacred art enshrining the words first of the Qur’an, then of the hadith (stories about and sayings of the ...

The art of Arabic calligraphy has been honed over more than a millennium, reaching an astounding level of artistic perfection. One renowned practitioner of the art today is Honda Kōichi, who ...

Another instantly recognizable style of Islamic art is the geometric pattern: These abstract designs, often formed using circles, squares, stars, and polygons, can be linked to Islamic interest in ...

While Syed still works in the traditional way, with pen and ink, she also takes the essence of Islamic calligraphy into different contexts. In 2016, she was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare ...