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 ...

During a prolific 200-year period in the 14th–16th centuries, four master calligraphers invented one of the most aesthetically refined forms of Persian culture: nasta‘liq, a type of calligraphy so ...

As a young boy in Taiwan, Jerry Yang was forced to study calligraphy — writing Chinese characters with a brush. The practice is thought to mold character as well as to reflect it, but Yang found it a ...

For Lunar New Year, Zhang and Richmond student Aiden Luo will be writing Chinese calligraphy banners, also called "fai chun," on Friday, Feb. 13, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Feb. 14 to 16 from 11 a.m.

In Kelantan, this centuries-old heritage art form continues to live on in the hands of its practitioners, transcending ...