On Thursday Nov. 8, the Muslim Students Association hosted their fall dinner at Wilbur Cross Reading Room. The event featured guest speaker Rasha Ahmed, a University of Connecticut alumni who is now ...

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 ...

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 ...

KARACHI: Calligraphy, one of the most ancient expressions of Islamic art, continues to be celebrated across the world. With the passage of time, the old traditional art has been revamped with the help ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Virginia school district is defending a classroom assignment that required students to practice calligraphy by writing the Muslim statement of faith, “There is no god but Allah. Muhammad is the ...

Honoured: Najib presenting the award to Mohammed Yusof at the Putra Mosque in Putrajaya as (from left) Dr Ahmad Zahid, Jamil and Jakim director-general Tan Sri Othman Mustapa look on. PUTRAJAYA: A ...

The 33rd Doha International Book Fair (DIBF) is adorned with over 65 creative works in the Islamic Calligraphy and Arabic Art Gallery, featuring artists and decorators from Qatar and the Arab world, ...

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