Los Angeles Times

With canvas and Quran, one artist aims to make Islamic calligraphy a universal language

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 ...
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Muthanna / mirror writing in Islamic calligraphy history, theory, and aesthetics Esra Akın-Kıvanç

Introduction: Axes -- Part I. A History of Mirror Writing: 1. Perspectives : Previous Scholarship on Mirror Writing -- 2. Foundations : The Practice of Mirror Writing -- 3. Orientations : Reversed and ...
Asia Society

Workshop: Calligraphy in Islamic Art

Islamic calligraphy was developed from Arabic writing that predates Islam. Calligraphy is used as a marker of religious and intellectual cultivation, and is used to inscribe the word of God through ...
The Christian Century

The divine script: The art of Islamic calligraphy

For Muslims, the Qur’an is revered as God’s own art. Islam is essentially an aural religion; God’s word came to the Prophet Muhammad as a voice, instructing him to iqra’, “Recite!” In fact, iqra’ is ...
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Islamic art : architecture, painting, calligraphy, ceramics, glass, carpets / Luca Mozzati ; [translation from the Italian, D. Radzinowicz ... et al.]

Translation of: Arte islamica : architettura, pittura, calligrafia, ceramica, vetri, tappeti. Milano : Mondadori arte, 2009. Basic Principles -- The interpretation of Islamic art -- The forms of ...