Housing Watch Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Islamic calligraphy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calligraphy

    Calligraphy. 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. [2][3] It is known in Arabic as khatt Arabi (خط عربي), which translates into Arabic line, design, or construction.

  3. Nastaliq - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nastaliq

    The name Nastaliq "is a contraction of the Persian naskh-i ta'liq (Persian: نَسْخِ تَعلیق), meaning a hanging or suspended naskh. " [6] Virtually all Safavid authors (like Dust Muhammad or Qadi Ahmad) attributed the invention of nastaliq to Mir Ali Tabrizi, who lived at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century.

  4. Ibrahim (name) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_(name)

    Ibrahim (anglicized as Ibraheem) (Arabic: إبراهيم, Ibrāhīm) is the Arabic name of the prophet and patriarch Abraham and one of Allah's messengers in the Quran.It is a common male first name and surname among Muslims and Arab Christians, a cognate of the name Abraham or Avram in Judaism and Christianity in the Middle East.

  5. Arabic script - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_script

    Arwi language (a mixture of Arabic and Tamil) uses the Arabic script together with the addition of 13 letters. It is mainly used in Sri Lanka and the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu for religious purposes. Arwi language is the language of Tamil Muslims. Arabi Malayalam is Malayalam written in the Arabic script.

  6. Muhammad (name) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_(name)

    Muhammad (Arabic: مُحَمَّد, romanized:Muḥammad), also spelled Muhammed, Muhamad, Mohammad, Mohammed, Mahammad, Maxammed, Mehemmed, Mohamad, Mohamed, or in a variety of other ways, is an Arabic given male name meaning 'praiseworthy'. The name comes from the passive participle of the Arabic verb ḥammada (حَمَّدَ), meaning 'to ...

  7. Urdu alphabet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_alphabet

    The Urdu alphabet (Urdu: اُردُو حُرُوفِ تَہَجِّی‌, 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 co-official status in the republics of Pakistan, India and South Africa.

  8. Naskh (script) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naskh_(script)

    Ta'zieh. Wayang. Islam portal. v. t. e. 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]

  9. Arabic calligraphy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_calligraphy

    Arabic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy based on the Arabic alphabet. It is known in Arabic as khatt (Arabic: خَطّ), derived from the words 'line', 'design', or 'construction'. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Kufic is the oldest form of the Arabic script. From an artistic point of view, Arabic calligraphy has been known and ...