Islamic calligraphy was developed from Arabic writing that predates Islam. Calligraphy is used as a marker of religious and intellectual cultivation, and is used to inscribe the word of God through ...

Introduction: Axes -- Part I. A History of Mirror Writing: 1. Perspectives : Previous Scholarship on Mirror Writing -- 2. Foundations : The Practice of Mirror Writing -- 3. Orientations : Reversed and ...

To an untrained eye, the late-13th-century "Star Tile" could seem like just another pretty object in a gallery full of exquisitely detailed treasures. The central image depicts a horse lying among ...

One of the many works of Persian calligraphy on display at the Freer Sackler Gallery. There are many who see the foreign symbols of the Arabic alphabet as art themselves, in contrast to the bland ...

On the other hand, there is no doubt the invention of writing revolutionised the human capacity for thinking. In a preliterate society, all knowledge has to be stored in human minds, which is why its ...