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 Dr.

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 ...

This exhibition Islamic Calligraphy in Practice and its companion exhibition,Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an, explore Islamic art’s quintessential art form: calligraphy. In 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 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 masterpieces from ...

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 ...

Thirty expert calligraphers from 16 Arab, Muslim and foreign countries have gathered at the Dubai Festival City to participate in the ninth edition of the Ramadan Forum for Quran Calligraphy. Each of ...

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, resettling ...

TEHRAN -- A new calligraphy for Sura Baqarah (The Cow), the longest sura (chapter) of the Holy Quran, inscribed by master of calligraphy Mohammad Salahshur, was introduced in a ceremony here at 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 ...