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Islamic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy, in the languages which use Arabic alphabet or the alphabets derived from it. It includes Arabic, Persian, Ottoman, and Urdu calligraphy.
Nastaliq ( / ˌnæstəˈliːk, ˈnæstəliːk /; [2] نستعلیق, Persian: [næstʰæʔliːq]; Urdu: [nəst̪ɑːliːq] ), also romanized as Nastaʿlīq or Nastaleeq, is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script and it is used for some Indo-Iranian languages, predominantly Classical Persian, Kashmiri, Punjabi ( Shahmukhi) and Urdu. It is often used also for ...
Naskh [a] is a smaller, round script of Islamic calligraphy. Naskh is one of the first scripts of Islamic calligraphy to develop, commonly used in writing administrative documents and for transcribing books, including the Qur’an, because of its easy legibility. [1]
Mai (Arabic name) Malika (given name) Maria (given name) Marwa (given name) Maryam (name) Maya (given name) Maysoon. Melek. Melissa.
Islam uses a number of conventionally complimentary phrases wishing-well or praising religiously-esteemed figures including God ( Allah ), Muhammad (Messenger of God), Muhammad's companions ( sahaba ), family ( Ahl al-Bayt ), other Islamic prophets and messengers, angels, and revered persons. In Twelver Shi'ism, honorifics are used with the Twelve Imams .
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script ), [2] the second-most widely used writing system in the world by number of countries using it, and the third-most by number of users (after the Latin and Chinese scripts ). [3]
The Urdu alphabet ( Urdu: اردو حروفِ تہجی, romanized : urdū ḥurūf-i tahajjī) is the right-to-left alphabet used for writing Urdu. It is a modification of the Persian alphabet, which itself is derived from the Arabic script. It has official status in the republics of Pakistan, India and South Africa. The Urdu alphabet has up to 39 [4] or 40 [5] distinct letters with no ...
Mashallah. Mashallah or Ma Sha Allah or Masha Allah or Ma Shaa Allah ( Arabic: مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّٰهُ, romanized : mā shāʾa -llāhu) [note 1] is an Arabic phrase that literally translates to ' God has willed it', implying that something has happened, generally used to positively denote something of greatness or beauty.