Islamic Arts and Architecture Organization
Posted 2009-09-16 11:21 by manarafo
Islamic Arts and Architecture (IAAO) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing information on arts and architecture. With a strong commitment to research and service, IAAO strives to offer a Web presentation of the highest quality and to promote the awareness of Islamic arts as a humanistic study, recognizing the inter-relationship between the arts and other academic disciplines ... more ...
Kufic Graphics - Web Design, Web Development, Print, Multimedia
Posted 2009-09-16 11:22 by manarafo
Welcomes you
Zakariya Calligraphy
Posted 2009-09-16 11:23 by manarafo
The Art, History, and Practice of Islamic Calligraphy
"Do not forget that while you are writing, you are on a path that is finer than a hair and sharper than a sword." — Yesari Mehmed Es'ad Efendi (d. 1798) to one of his calligraphy students
What is Islamic art? Customarily, the answers range from the astute to the ludicrous. I would like to use this space to add my own observations to the stew and see how it tastes. (Perhaps a bit more salty?) Although I approach the issue via calligraphy and its associated arts, I want to keep the bigger questions in the near background, out of sight but not out of mind.
