Since the Islamic conquest, Moroccan calligraphers relentlessly pursued their craft, despite scarcity of schools to teach the ...

The Arabic script contains a full range of letters of manipulable size and shape ... textiles and architecture. Islamic calligraphy and illustrated manuscripts have been highly prized for millennia.

Poems from centuries ago can stand in dialogue with painters speaking to their contemporaries, and calligraphy serves as a bit of a bridge between them. Paintings by an artist or artists of the ...