Famous Arabic Calligraphers

Today we have decided to continue the series of publications for the avid typography fans with 15 of the most famous calligraphers on instagram.

Famous arabic calligraphers. 984 andalusian calligrapher and scholar. Chapter 4 the islamic calligraphy the quranic script from north africa or near east ca. Calligraphy artists typically use dip pens with nibs and ink to create thick and thin lines using varying degrees of pressure all in a single stroke. 1022 fakhr un nisa 12th century yaqut al musta simi d. The second famous calligrapher of this era was khalid ibn al hayyaj the official scribe of the caliph al waleed ibn abdul malik 705 715 whose father commissioned the first monumental islamic achievement in architecture and calligraphy. 750 800 ad is a unique combination of several aspects of early kufic calligraphy style. Most striking of these is its mashq or extension of the horizontal axis of the letters.

Ruh is a multi award winning british artist arabic calligrapher and designer born in london. From a fine art background ruh studied at central st. Xie daoyun chinese poet writer scholar and calligrapher. 1298 mir ali tabrizi d. While calligraphy is defined as the art of producing decorative handwriting or lettering with a pen or brush hand lettering is actually an entirely different art form and involves drawing letters as opposed to writing them. Apart from its beautiful calligraphy the manuscripts of al bawwab are lavishly ornamented with sarlauh. In one of our previous articles published on monsterpost this week we were talking about vintage fonts for logo design.

He is trained in traditional arabic calligraphy from master calligraphers in egypt but is popularly known for developing his own range of arabic scripts and typefaces. Ali ibn hilal called al bawwab is perhaps the most famous of all arabic calligraphers and credited with originating the naskh script style. This includes a general overview of calligraphy in an islamic religious context and discusses the work of famous calligraphers. Umm al darda al sughra. 260 873 74 abassid poet and calligrapher. Al shifa bint abdullah arabic calligrapher. 939 940 ibn al bawwab d.

Masjid qubatu l sakhra or the dome of the rock mosque which was completed around 690 in jerusalem. Sana 8th century abassid calligrapher.