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Jeddah, March 10, 2025, SPA -- Visitors to the second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale stood before a unique Quranic manuscript that smoothly combines the elegance of Arabic calligraphy with the ...

Arabic Calligraphy gained prominence during the Islamic Golden Age especially from the Arabic language Kufic script. The types of pens to be used for right and left-handed calligraphers vary in sizes ...

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced that the 18th century Quran he used for his swearing-in will be kept on display at the main branch of the New York Public Library. In a post on X shared on ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Warner Bros‘ Weapons. Writer-director Zach Cregger described the ...

At the stroke of midnight on January 1, Zohran Mamdani made a series of historic firsts as mayor of New York City by becoming the first Muslim, first South Asian and first African-born person to hold ...

Cairo, Dec. 22 (Petra) – Jordan participated in the 10th edition of the Cairo International Biennial of the Arabic Calligraphy Art, organized by Egypt’s Cultural Development Fund, in the presence of ...

Nastaleeq, developed in 14th century Iran from the fusion of Naskh and Taleeq, emerged primarily as a Persian calligraphic hand — celebrated for its graceful, hanging rhythm and flowing curves.

Visitors at the 44th Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) are getting a rare chance to see a piece of Islamic art history — a facsimile edition of a Quran manuscript written more than a thousand ...

Abstract: Arabic and various Indic scripts received researcher attention after a long time of focus on East Asian and Western whereas this script is used by 1/4th of the world population by many ...

AhlulBayt News Agency: A copy of the Quran in Naskh script will soon be unveiled in the Algerian province of Tlemcen. Preparations are underway to prepare the copy and in this regard, a series of ...