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 ...

The 30th section was finished and went on display at the 14th Quran exhibit. The Latin calligraphy style of the Holy Quran used in this project contains two types of handwriting styles -- gothic and ...

The Sharjah Museums Authority is showcasing a number of rare Quran manuscripts and Islamic calligraphy from the Hamid Jafar Quran Collection at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization. Sheikh ...

The varied works of calligraphy on display—from practice alphabets to elaborately finished manuscripts—serve as traces of individuals, belief systems, and cultures. The costly and exotic materials ...

ANKARA. The Turkish capital Ankara hosted an opening exhibition on Thursday of a handwritten manuscript of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, and a calligraphy art fair featuring multiple ...

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 ...

There is also a Quran published by Qazi Abdul Karim at Fazle Haq Lasani Press, Mumbai in 1897. Ten manuscripts at the exhibition show the Quran in Ghubar calligraphy on scrolls of yellow parchment ...

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.

More than seven decades ago, in pre-Independence India, little Mast Ram Abrol used to accompany his father to the palace of Hari Singh, who would end up to be the last Dogra ruler of Jammu and ...

The inaugural Dubai Calligraphy Biennale, which will run till the end of October, will bring together some of the best calligraphers in the country in more than 19 exhibitions across 35 locations.