During a prolific 200-year period in the 14th–16th centuries, four master calligraphers invented one of the most aesthetically refined forms of Persian culture: nasta‘liq, a type of calligraphy so ...

The Persian word for calligraphy is "khoshnevisi" and a calligrapher is known as "khoshnevis". Calligraphy is also synonymous with khat (literally, line or script) and khat neveshtan (writing script).

At the event, Ghasemi spoke about the history, formation, and evolution of Persian calligraphy across different historical periods and the role of this art in Iranian–Islamic civilization. He also ...

“The Farsi language is a poetic language,” says Masud Valipour, owner of Ketabsara Persian Calligraphy and Books in Westwood’s Persian Square. He gestures along the store’s walls where turquoise, jade ...

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Karim Jabbari still remembers how painful it was to walk down the street with his family as a child and see his neighbors turn away. “No one was willing to talk to us in public,” he says. Jabbari’s ...

The biennial in Sharjah, known as the cultural and literature hub of the UAE, has put on show 17 calligraphy works by Feizabadi, created in Shikasteh style, ILNA reported. Feizabadi, 56, is known for ...