It is made of art and decorative writing :)
-Cathy Kwon-
calligraphy
Muslim Art
Islamic calligraphy is a beautiful work of writing that uses the Arabic text as the basis of a written text, therefore, Islamic calligraphy is often called by the Arabic calligraphy. Islamic calligraphy is an art expression implementation Muslim artists from around the world to express their love to God.
They created art without showing humans and animals by turning calligraphy into an art form.
Islam prohibits the use of the pictures of living beings. So, the Muslim artists use geometrical and vegecal patterns.
Muslim scholars made cultural achievements during the golden age under the Abbasid Dynasty. These included calligraphy, architecture, literature, and philosophy.
Much decoration in Muslim temples involves calligraphy.
Yes. Even though most people say it was made by Greeks, they try to hide the truth so, it was made by the Muslim.
Calligraphy was so respected by Muslims because they used it to write the Qur'an. The Qur'an told of the prophet Muhammad, his Night Journey, verses, and messages from the angel Gabriel. The Muslims felt that only beautiful writing like calligraphy was suited to record the words of Allah (God). Because of this calligraphers were the most highly respected people in the Muslim world.
calligraphy
Calligraphy simply means beautiful writing and if you go on Google.com and type in calligraphy or even calligraphy alphabet it will come up with three pictures and a lot of written responds.
Monks did calligraphy because when they wrote the bible paper was to expensive to write big so they created a smaller and narrower way to write and say paper.