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mediareport — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:07:15 -0800

It can be stately and elegant, beautiful and swirling or square and modern. It makes a surprising variety of intricate pictures. Why is the written word honored so highly in Islamic art? Find out by diving into the gorgeous world of Arab Calligraphy. Here's a friendly portal to help. Take time to linger over a language that took a different path. (Bonus for font freaks inside)

By: donkeyschlong

donkeyschlong — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:24:06 -0800

(Can we ban Pantload and ParisPariah from this thread preemptively?)

By: mediareport

mediareport — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:26:50 -0800

Bonus for Font freaks: Ayesha's amazing animated Arabic alphabet (Flash req'd). Also: Four pages of old school Islamic calligraphy More contemporary approach from the director of London's Research Centre for Arab Art and Design, Ahmed Moustafa

By: elphTeq

elphTeq — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 01:52:30 -0800

an awesome array of links to behold, mediareport. good work. :)

By: Bixby23

Bixby23 — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 02:43:09 -0800

This is very cool. Thanks.

By: Arqa

Arqa — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 03:27:50 -0800

mediareport, you have singlehandely thrown me back to a time when I was 7 years old and I was transfixed by a turkish student friend of my parent's, writing my name for me in arabic script. Throughout the time he stayed with us, he taught me much of the alphabet too. I just worked my way through Ayesha's animated alphabet and was surprised at just how many of the glyphs and sounds I remembered. Cheers mediareport, I'll be smiling alot today! :-)

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 06:23:24 -0800

Wow. Great links. Thanks.

By: Marquis

Marquis — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 06:43:06 -0800

i ? mediareport

By: beth

beth — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 07:56:05 -0800

Wow, very cool. Very beautiful, too. Thank you!

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:52:07 -0800

Too groovy. I've been working on learning formal Arabic, and the writing has always been the hardest part...this is stunning! Great links, you rock. :)

By: mediareport

mediareport — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:13:12 -0800

Thank the idiocy of that lawsuit against UNC, which inspired me to go digging. I've liked looking at Arabic (not Arab, as I wrote above) calligraphy for years but never knew much about it. I love this one. And the origin and development links are really fascinating.