Writing the Word of God
Tools and Materials | Training and Practice | Contexts for Calligraphy | Writing the Word of God “I do not know of any other form of writing in which the letters undergo so much beautifying and...
View ArticleAthar: Traces of the Calligrapher and Prophetby Jacqueline Ganem, Asia...
As a conceptual category, the trace has bearings on ideas of an animating presence left behind. It is related to the relic, from the Latin reliquiae, the remains of a martyr or deceased person, and...
View ArticleContexts for Calligraphy
Tools and Materials | Training and Practice | Contexts for Calligraphy | Writing the Word of God Following the advice of ‘Ali b. Abi Talib (died 661)—son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, fourth orthodox...
View ArticleThe Calligrapher’s Training and Practice
Tools and Materials | Training and Practice | Contexts for Calligraphy | Writing the Word of God Beyond talent, training to become a calligrapher required years of practice, perseverance, and...
View ArticleThe Calligrapher’s Tools and Materials
Tools and Materials | Training and Practice | Contexts for Calligraphy | Writing the Word of God Beyond the years of training and practice required to master the varied Arabic scripts, calligraphers...
View ArticleIntroduction: Traces of the Calligrapher
This exhibition and its companion exhibition, Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an, explore Islamic art’s quintessential art form: calligraphy. In the Islamic world, the practice of...
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