Islamic

• Exhibition Rta-Ritu - An Exhibition on Cosmic Order and Cycle of Seasons  |   View Photographs

  • Rta-Ritu - Spatial Order - Isfahan - The City of Paradise - lslamic architecture touched a new peak during the rule of the Safavids, (16th Century) in which a synthesis of Shi’ ite, Arabic and Central Asian influences took place to produce the paradisal city of Isfahan

  • Rta-Ritu - Ritu Chakra -  SUMMER: Smouldering Earth - The Islamic calendar being lunar, dates of major Muslim festivals keep varying on the solar calendar now globally in use. Some years it so happens that the auspicious time for pilgrimage to Mecca (Haj) that is, the twelfth Muslim month, falls in the summer.

  • Rta-Ritu - Ritu Chakra -  SPRING: Abundant Earth - One of the few Muslim festivals connected with the solar (rather than the lunar) year is Nawvuz , the Iranian New Year observed on the vernal equinox.

• Bibliography on Calligraphy - a Literature Search

  Islamic Calligraphy - 

  • History

  • Arabic Origin

  • Heading through Persia

  • Blossoms in India

  Some Major Styles

  • Kufic

  • Naskhi and Nastaliq

  • Tughra

  • Maghrebi and Shikasta

  • Art and Technique

  • Calligraphers : biographies

  • Generalia

• Nature, Man and Art : An Irano Islamic Perspective (Amir H. Zekrgoo) from Book Man In Nature

• Akara - The Quest for Perfect Form - (Exhibition)

• The treasures of persian and Arabic Calligraphy are untold  

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