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• Posted By : Gertrude Bologna
• Posted On : Jul 26, 2022
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• Category : General
• Description : Even though it can be considered an irrelevant part of society, Islamic calligraphy is important to its culture because of its part in architecture and religion, and it also assists in maintaining unity. Arabic Calligraphy's role in religion is mainly because of Muslim forbiddance of depicting living beings in art.

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• Even though it can be considered an irrelevant part of society, Islamic calligraphy is important to its culture because of its part in architecture and religion, and it also assists in maintaining unity. Arabic Calligraphy's role in religion is mainly because of Muslim forbiddance of depicting living beings in art. Islamic calligraphy is used for decoration of the interior and building exterior to assist in reminding citizens of the purpose of architecture and glorify God. Calligraphy also assists in uniting Muslims as everyone should learn to participate in recitations and prayers.

  Islamic Calligraphy art was developed into art at the time of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph and Son in the law of Muhammad. Besides being a religious leader, he was a great artist and calligrapher. The vitality of Arabic Calligraphy art grew after his exclusive development of art. Muslims are very cautious against creating illustrations of all living beings, for which maximum Islamic art is calligraphic. Even though it is not considered a proper art form by much of western societies, Islamic calligraphy is required for its own culture because of its important role in religion, creation of unity and architecture.

  Importance of Islamic calligraphy in Islam

  Initially, Arabic Calligraphy was a communication tool, but Muslims used Arabic calligraphy for decoration, architecture and designing coins with passing the time. Calligraphy is the only kind of art that Muslims will scribe that is considered worthy of conveying the word of Allah. Thus, the complicated calligraphic details that were found on the page of the Quran are quite appealing.

  DIY Islamic Art symbolizes Muslims taking complete pride in the whole language and considering it worthy for spreading the message of Allah in written form. When time passed, calligraphers developed various Islamic calligraphy styles such as

  • Kufic:  First calligraphy style was developed during the 7th century in South Iraq. Similarly, it took some inspiration from Arabic scripts of the 3rd and 4th centuries.
  • Naskhi: It is an easily readable script designed during the 10th century and was selected as the script for replacing the Kufic script of the Holy Quran.

  Thus, calligraphy is a means for transmitting a text even though in a most decorative form.