BY YASMINE ABOU GHAZALE
This
statement contradicts the stereotype that Islam is a religion that encourages
violence and terrorism, rather it's a religion based on peace and serenity.
This is proved through the greetings among Muslims which is "Assalamu
Alaikom", meaning peace be upon you. Despite all the media outlets
portraying this profound religion as violent and abusive, its own people
disagree with what is going on around the world nowadays. Islam means no harm,
and encourages love and tolerance. In addition, the word “Islam” refers to
making peace, being in a mutually peaceful environment, greetings, finding
peace, keeping away from troubles and disasters
Every religion has a distinctive virtue, and the distinctive virtue of Islam
is modesty -words of The Prophet Muhammad -peace and blessings upon him
I used the kufic calligraphy since it
inspires me. Kufic is one of the oldest calligraphic forms of various Arabic scripts.
It developed around the end of the 7th century in Kufa, Iraq. Until
about the 11th century it was the main script used to copy the Qur’an.
The current flag of Iraq uses Kufic script to write God is the greatest
Kūfic script, in calligraphy earliest extant Islamic style of handwritten
alphabet that was used by early Muslims to record the Qurʾān I chose to
do mine in the kufic calligraphy since it has to do with Islam and usually,
most of the artists use calligraphy when it comes to religion and they use it
in Islamic architecture
So many artists influenced me such
as the famous Arabic calligrapher Uday Al Arji who lives in Dubai and is
astonishing everyone around him with his astonishing work. His calligraphy is definitely done handmade, most of his work talk or send a message about
peace. His work is mostly from the Qur'an and Hadeeth:
I also was influenced by the female
Arabic calligrapher Lubna Shaikh. She has been doing work that could be called
“Islamic Art” for more than 10 years. She inspired me because nowadays we don’t
have much female calligraphers. So she has opened the doors to all the females
with her work. She started with craving calligraphy into candles (wax). Not
long after, she started with mirror and glass (painting and etching), block
printing, woodwork, pain and embroidery. Her calligraphy was inspired by the
verse from the Qur’an “Without doubt in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find
rest”. She is inspired by Islam’s artistic history; calligraphers of the past
who made connection with their hearts, bodies, and minds, who lifted their pens
with the daunting task of creating script beautiful enough to carry the words
of Allah
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For my calligraphy, I used 15ln X 20l white board. I used several colors such as light blue, dark blue, orange, red, pink, and yellow. I
got these different paper colors and cut them into small squares.
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