Whatever the reason for the diminishing popular appeal and appreciation of the art form in the modern world, it nevertheless somehow continues to survive in its classical form. Arabic calligraphy is ...

Dubai – Want to know about a notable master of calligraphy and a man of awards. He is the talented Iraqi artist Hakim Ghannam who was born in 1961 in Iraq where he got a degree in calligraphy from the ...

Dubai - The Islamic & Arabic calligraphy exhibition being held on the sidelines of the 19th edition of the Dubai International Holy Quran Award saw an impressive masterpiece by the prominent Turkish ...

The Holy Quran Museum in Mecca has unveiled a rare folio from the legendary ‘Blue Quran’, a 9th-century manuscript renowned ...

DUBAI, 12th June, 2017 (WAM) -- Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, has approved the ninth session of the Ramadan Forum for Quran Calligraphy, which is ...

KUWAIT, Jan 27 (KUNA) -- The Islamic civilization has largely inspired and enriched the art of Arabic calligraphy and throughout the decades of Islamic rule it has become on par with poetry and music.

ISTANBUL — Iraqi calligrapher Ali Zaman gazes with pride at his masterpiece — a colossal, handwritten manuscript of the Quran that has taken six years of craft and devotion to complete. The finished ...

The director of Iran’s Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO), Abuzar Ebrahimi-Torkaman, and the director of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), Ali Erbas, attended the ...

The sura has been inscribed in the nastaliq style of calligraphy and the entire sura weighs about 100kg, the Persian service of IRNA reported on Tuesday. “Calligraphy of the entire Quran containing ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger.

(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) The Islamic & Arabic calligraphy exhibition being held on the sidelines of the 19th edition of the Dubai International Holy Quran Award saw an impressive masterpiece by the ...