FREER GALLERY OF ART One of the many works of Persian calligraphy on display at the Freer Sackler Gallery. There are many who see the foreign symbols of the Arabic alphabet as art themselves, in ...

Kufic script, the oldest calligraphic form of the various Arabic scripts, is linear and bold. It developed at the end of the 7th century in Kufa, Iraq, and until about the 11th century it was the main ...

This is a "purely spiritual script" - it's enough just to look at it, but not all types of Arabic calligraphy are religious. New styles of proportional cursive scripts, like naksh and thuluth ...

The dawn of Arabic calligraphy was instigated by the creative genius of three master calligraphers from Baghdad: Ibn Muqla of the Abbasid court (886-940), Ibn al-Bawwab the Illuminator (961-1022 ...

I learned that I have a great passion for learning the art of Arabic calligraphy, as I learned several script forms within a short period of time and it was self-teaching.

And in modern-day Turkey, authorities eventually resolved the typeface issue in the 1920s by changing that country’s script from Arabic-based to Latin-based. Karim Jabbari's father's books.

While Arabic calligraphy carries powerful textual beauty, colour elevates its emotional resonance. Colour creates rhythm and mood. It transforms a script into an experience. Who are the Calligraphy ...

Arabic script comes of age with modern fonts27 September 2013 BEIRUT: Some people take years learning the intricacies of the Arabic script, at times so ornate it can be difficult to decipher. Others ...

Clothes designers across the Middle East are increasingly using Arabic calligraphy in their designs – which some see as a way to keep their language and culture in fashion. Arabic letters ...

But readability didn't matter, Medlej says. This is a "purely spiritual script" - it's enough just to look at it, but not all types of Arabic calligraphy are religious.