A new Islamic calligraphy exhibition commemorating the 1443rd year of prophet Muhammad's birth opened here Friday. Islamic Culture and Art Platform, in cooperation with Yildiz Holding, a Turkish ...

Rawalpindi: Internationally acclaimed calligrapher Muhammad Azeem Iqbal, who has been working in the field of Islamic calligraphy for the past thirty-five years, continues to inspire art lovers ...

ISLAMABAD: Arabic Calligraphy, an art form which emerged in the Arabian Peninsula out of nascent Islam’s need to avoid figures and pictorial references, is believed to have made its way to the ...

Renowned calligrapher Muhammad Ali Zahid has become the first Pakistani to win the Albaraka International Turk calligraphy competition 2021 held in Turkey. The competition is held every three years.

Meandering through the eerily quiet and narrow sand paths of Wadi al-Salam, lined on either side with graves speckled to the horizon and beyond, you’ll see colourful Arabic calligraphy adorning the ...

“Back in the olden days, the calligraphers would go to mosques,” Mariam Lodin told me. “They would take a feather and gather soot from the ceilings of oil lamps. Then, they would write texts with the ...

Achyut Palav, 66, the Mumbai-based Marathi master calligrapher who was honoured with the Padma Shri in 2025, recalls the day when his Class VIII teacher assigned him the task of writing ‘Thought for ...

Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, Sheikh Sultan bin Ahmed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah, ...