51 Famous Arabic Calligraphers

From a fine art background ruh studied at central st.

Famous arabic calligraphers. Sana 8th century abassid calligrapher. While calligraphy is defined as the art of producing decorative handwriting or lettering with a pen or brush hand lettering is actually an entirely different art form and involves drawing letters as opposed to writing them. Most striking of these is its mashq or extension of the horizontal axis of the letters. Chapter 4 the islamic calligraphy the quranic script from north africa or near east ca. Wei shuo 272 349 chinese calligrapher. Ruh is a multi award winning british artist arabic calligrapher and designer born in london. Calligraphy artists typically use dip pens with nibs and ink to create thick and thin lines using varying degrees of pressure all in a single stroke.

Ali ibn hilal called al bawwab is perhaps the most famous of all arabic calligraphers and credited with originating the naskh script style. 939 940 ibn al bawwab d. 1298 mir ali tabrizi d. Umm al darda al sughra. List of calligraphers ibn muqla d. He is trained in traditional arabic calligraphy from master calligraphers in egypt but is popularly known for developing his own range of arabic scripts and typefaces. In one of our previous articles published on monsterpost this week we were talking about vintage fonts for logo design.

750 800 ad is a unique combination of several aspects of early kufic calligraphy style. This includes a general overview of calligraphy in an islamic religious context and discusses the work of famous calligraphers. 1022 fakhr un nisa 12th century yaqut al musta simi d. Xie daoyun chinese poet writer scholar and calligrapher. Masjid qubatu l sakhra or the dome of the rock mosque which was completed around 690 in jerusalem. Al shifa bint abdullah arabic calligrapher. Today we have decided to continue the series of publications for the avid typography fans with 15 of the most famous calligraphers on instagram.

The second famous calligrapher of this era was khalid ibn al hayyaj the official scribe of the caliph al waleed ibn abdul malik 705 715 whose father commissioned the first monumental islamic achievement in architecture and calligraphy. 984 andalusian calligrapher and scholar.