Arabic calligraphy which is your favorite?

[Re.TiReD]

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Beautiful thread masha'Allah!

 

[Danah]

I used Dewani and I voted for it, itd my fav style

 

[Re.TiReD]

Thuluth and Naskh are the ones that most mirror my calligraphy style....its very difficult though :skeleton: :-[

 

[yasin ibn Ahmad]

Thanks for all the replies... what happened to all the previous posts that were here? eh-- just as well..
I guess we have no Turks on board?... no one is up for deewani, where I find its cursive circular style rather warm and provocative...There is definitely something highly artistic and ornate about Kufi -- I am surprised that it is losing out to Farsi...

There is saying that goes:
The Noble Qur'an was sent down on Mecca,
and it was recited in Cairo,
and it was written in Istanbul
I prefer Riqa.
And also check that site I am sure you haven't heard or seen this before.
Some parts are Turkish so a short explanation.Above the Qur'an page it says the words which come from te same root overlaps
Each link shows a different example.

http://www.hayratvakfi.org/index.php?bolum=2&altbolum=numune&numune=1&lang=tr
http://www.hayratvakfi.org/index.php?bolum=2&altbolum=numune&numune=2&lang=tr
http://www.hayratvakfi.org/index.php?bolum=2&altbolum=numune&numune=6&lang=tr
http://www.hayratvakfi.org/index.php?bolum=2&altbolum=numune&numune=10&lang=tr

 

[waji]

I like Naskh simple and easy to understand
other looks good and beautiful
and i think other types are not for common use

 

[Güven]

I like Farsi, Thuluth And Deewani :statisfie

Sini Looks Beautiful too

 

[جوري]

wow forgot about this old thread..who resurrected it? lol

 

[Thinker]

I posted a message on Thursday on a thread I started some time back in the Discovering Islam section. I got the messahe back 'pending approval' and it appears to be still pending! As this message is on Caligraphy I'll try same message here . . .

Looking on the web, it appears that the earliest written copy of the Qur'an is written in Kufic script. I would like to know how similar/dissimilar Kufic is to modern day Arabic. If you type in Kufic into Google several pictures come up of script written in Kufic, if there is a native Arab out there I'd like to know if you can read it or how easy difficult it is to read?

Thanks

 

[جوري]

I posted a message on Thursday on a thread I started some time back in the Discovering Islam section. I got the messahe back 'pending approval' and it appears to be still pending! As this message is on Caligraphy I'll try same message here . . .

Looking on the web, it appears that the earliest written copy of the Qur'an is written in Kufic script. I would like to know how similar/dissimilar Kufic is to modern day Arabic. If you type in Kufic into Google several pictures come up of script written in Kufic, if there is a native Arab out there I'd like to know if you can read it or how easy difficult it is to read?

Thanks

I believe I have in fact seen your message some where, with people responding to it.. why don't you check under your user profile to see if you have a subscription still to it?

Kufi is an art form.. it is Arabic but done in a ornate style.. I think only artisans use it?
it is quite easy to read.. All of them are quite easy to read.. sometimes when the letters are too interwined you need to latch on to the one word you recognize in there and then they will all unravel..

hope that answered your q? :-[

peace

 

[Al-Zaara]

Selam aleykum,

I guess we have no Turks on board?... no one is up for deewani, where I find its cursive circular style rather warm and provocative...

Of course you have Turks here!

I like Deewani and Thuluth. I love Deewani more like an art, I don't think I'll ever master it, but I so love it and voted for it.

I'm aiming for Thuluth instead, inshaAllah. But currently my writing resembles a mixture of Thuluth and Muhaqqaq, lol.

 

[Güven]

O yeah Forgot To Ask , I guess This Calighrapy Is Deewani ?? And Does Someone Know Whats Written There?

 

[Güven]

^Sooo No One ????

 

[جوري]

it says in the name of God most gracious most merciful!

 

[Güven]

JazakAllahu Khair Sis :thumbs_up, Its Written Soo Beautiful :statisfie

 

[جوري]

it is nice.. done isometrically mirror- image style ..
Jazaks

 

[Banu_Hashim]

I was browsing through old threads, and found this one. I voted for Thuluth.

 

[Zuzubu]

I like farsi, because I speak farsi. =)

 

[Ummu Sufyaan]

^are you a shia?