Arabic calligraphy has evolved for more than 14 centuries in countless regions and nations throughout the world. The history and miscellany Arabic calligraphy has brought to us enhanced and supplemented Arabic scripts for the better, with perpetually more compound and imaginative types.
Throughout this extended interval of time of the evolution of Arabic calligraphy, the Baghdadi and Ottoman periods provided a lot to its great development.
Arabic calligraphy was primarily a tool for communicating, but as time evolved, it started to be utilized in architecture, decorational purposes, and even coin delineation.
Once my eyes are locked at a piece of Arabic calligraphy, I always wonder and try to comprehend the story behind it. Take, for instance, this piece of Calligraphy that says “نخب الحالمون” which means, to those who dream, but what is the actual story behind it?
Calligraphy was an empirical instrument utilized to note literature in the beginning, although calligraphy sooner or later initiated itself as a reverence visual art type that Quran scholars would use as a way to communicate and convey themselves and the community surrounding them. Calligraphy is the art of writing (inscribing) made for visions of beauty to others and as well as to send ideas and feelings. The Arabic calligraphy “اللي يشوف بلوة غيرة” can have a backdrop story explaining that phrase more, it can represent a woman who had gone through so much in life, that put her in a state of devastation when she realised that she lived in a world of beauty and kind people in it, so why waste time being sad but instead be grateful for the place you’re in right now, as there may be worse for other people, so don't be sad by small stuff as people have to face bigger challenges and phases of devastation but still admire and idolize the wonders of this world.
Arabic calligraphy is the artistic application of handwriting/drawing and calligraphy grounded on the Arabic alphabet to express feelings, or literature for Quran scholars. The word “calligraphy” in Arabic is translated to Khatt, acquired from the word line, design, or construction. Before the disbursement of Islam, the Arabian Peninsula welcomed a variation of primary hebrew languages, and the finding of calligraphic artifacts in the primary languages had shown that the doing of calligraphy occurred/existed Islam. For example, Ancient Persia was utilizing Cuneiform calligraphy to embellish the monuments of kings in that period which showed respect for the written words. A broad diversity of scripts advanced and demolished in fame in areas like Damascus, Baghdad, Morocco, and even Spain. Kulfic, called that for the city of Kufah in Iraq was the initial universal script, although was uneven and comparatively disorganised. The Golden age of Araboc calligraphy was succeeded by three talented calligraphers: Ibn Muqla, Ibn al-Bawwab, and Yakut al-Musta’sim of Amasya.
Ibn Muqla systematized the theory of calligraphy, consisting his principle of portion, that calligraphers use nowadays. His theory initiated the rhomboid dot and the length of the alid stroke as the sections of measuring. Islam endured to disperse quickly. The change of Ghazan, head of the Mongol Empire, the Muslim Mughal and Mamluk ancestries in India and Egypt, and ultimately the Ottoman Empire, all shoved Islam to further touches to the globe with Arabic Calligraphy. In every single empire and culture, the doing of Arabic Calligraphy was enlarged and purified by artists who took it up. These days an extraordinary arrangement of calligraphy scripts are part of the valuable inheritance of Arabic calligraphy that endures to be passed ahead. Kulfic calligraphy is one of the most popular styles and is the oldest calligraphic type of a majority of Arabic scripts, and includes a modified type of the old Nabataean script. Thuluth script is a middle age islamic type of handwritten alphabet. It is a big and stylish cursive script for mosque decorations. One very famous Arabic calligrapher was a highschool dropout from California who transformed to Islam and became Ameria’s most famous Arabic calligrapher. As a beginner calligrapher you should start out with a calligraphy pen (including the nib), cartridge pens, dip pens, felt tips, ink, paper, calligraphy books, pencils, erasers, and a ruler. As well as that some tools and pens used are Qalam, fountain pen, quills, brush pens, fountain pens, glass dip pens, italic pens, left-handed pens, markers, nib holders, and many other exquisite intricate pens and tools leading to astonishing Arabic calligraphy.
WRITTEN & EDITED BY CARLA KHALIL
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