India has 22 official languages. But the real beauty isn’t just in hearing them spoken – it’s in seeing them rendered in script. The bustling streets of Delhi’s Urdu Bazaar were once lined with ...

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 ...

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 set of 4 : 3 Ori-hon containing various calligraphies and 1 ink on paper board. Calligraphy examples / ink on paper Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 21, 2008 - Members of the Asia Society gathered for the opening of two Asia Society Museum exhibitions of Islamic calligraphy, Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in ...

Editor's note: Chinese calligraphy is the artistic practice of writing Chinese characters using a brush and ink. Celebrated for its aesthetic beauty and cultural depth, Chinese calligraphy is not ...

Mohamed Zakariya sat perched at a long table, his head bent over a small piece of paper. As admirers peered over his shoulder, he grasped his handmade pen and slowly produced the rounded, flowing ...

Calligraphy was once China’s highest art form—then the Communist Party tried to erase it. Now, under Xi Jinping, it’s making a comeback. At Sotheby’s in Hong Kong, a rare copy of the Orchid Pavilion ...