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).

Thus many of them are now lovingly collecting items of Iranian Calligraphy. “Nastaliq” is the most popular contemporary style among classical Persian calligraphy scripts. It is known as ...

Craftsmen mounted the calligraphy in books, often inside gold borders and alongside elaborate illustrations. This folio dates to the 16th century. Freer/Sackler Gallery A Persian calligraphy that ...

“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 ...

Image courtesy of Karim Jabbari Calligraphy—and calligraphers—have resisted new technologies for centuries. For starters, Arabic and its sibling, Persian, used non-Latin alphabets that made ...

I recently visited the Smithsonian Museum’s Sackler Gallery’s new exhibition, Nasta‘liq: The Genius of Persian Calligraphy in Washington, D.C. The Sackler Gallery frequently features new and ...

The most stirring pieces in the show meld these different influences. “Returning to the language of his childhood home, Noushin incorporates Persian calligraphy in many of his paintings and sculptures ...

Shiite Muslim religious scholars in the ancient city’s turquoise-tiled edifices bury their noses in Koranic texts illustrated with Persian calligraphy, in scenes that evoke Mesopotamia’s rich ...

An exhibition on Arabic-Persian calligraphy in medieval India gives viewers a glimpse of what it took to be an artist in that period. Calligraphy has always been high art but one of the most ...

Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat is renowned for her photography series and films, which often address the social, political and cultural dimensions of women in Islamic societies. Rodolfo ...