DUBAI: Practiced for hundreds of years, Arabic calligraphy is being acknowledged on a grand scale in 2020. Saudi Arabia has declared 2020 as the Year of Arabic Calligraphy, and UNESCO has registered ...

Iranian calligrapher holds live demos of the revered style at Sharjah International Book Fair Sharjah: An Iranian calligrapher is holding live demonstrations of the dying Kufic script, the oldest form ...

Dating back to the early Islamic era, the gravestone was discovered in a holy shrine in Saman county, a local tourism chief has said. The gravestone belonging to Harun Ibn Musa bears great ...

In a simple saffron sari with a contrasting turquoise blouse and salt and pepper hair, artist Iram Zia turned out to be much like her work - bright, colourful and with a traditional twist. The ...

The writings of the early Islamic period can be broadly classified into the cursive script and the Kufic script. The former was more commonly used for informal writing, while the latter was used for ...

A page from an eleventh-century Iranian copy of the Qur’an, done in Kufic Arabic script. (Wikimedia Commons public domain image) A band of inscribed Kufic script against a background pattern of ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta- The halal logo that was just introduced by the Ministry of Religious Affairs created quite the controversy as many argue that the Arabic calligraphy is much more difficult to read ...

MAKKAH: Early Islamic inscriptions in Kufic script recently discovered in Al-Sidriya site in Al-Dawadmi in the Riyadh region are nothing short of a historical treasure, providing an insight into not ...

Iraq is known as the home of one of the oldest forms of Islamic calligraphy, the Kufic script, which was named after the city of Kufa. Copies of the Quran dating to the eighth century were written in ...

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PM Narendra Modi, who called on Sayyed Ali Khamenei at his office, gifted the Supreme Leader the specially commissioned reproduction of rare 7th Century manuscript of the Holy Quran. Prime Minister ...

What was previously thought to be typical Viking Age, silver patterns on woven silk bands, could in fact be geometric Kufic characters. As part of an exhibition at the Enköping Museum, ongoing ...