Islamic Calligraphy Art

Islamic calligraphy is the artistic pattern of handwriting and calligraphy, based upon the first principle in the lands sharing a common Islamic cultural heritage. It includes Arabic Calligraphy, Ottoman, and Persian calligraphy. It is recognized in Arabic as chat Islamic (خط اسلامي), meaning Islamic line, figure, or structure.
The growth of Islamic calligraphy is strongly linked to the Qur'an; chapters and extracts from the Qur'an are a common and almost universal text upon which Islamic calligraphy is based. Deep religious association with the Qur'an, as well as suspicion of figurative art as idolatrous, has led calligraphy to become one of the major figures of aesthetic expression in Islamic cultures.It has also been indicated that Islamic calligraphy was motivated less by iconophobia (since, in fact, images were by no means lacking in Islamic art) torn by the centrality of the notion of writing and written text in Islam.

 As Islamic calligraphy is highly revered, most works follow examples set by well established calligraphers, with the exclusion of secular or contemporary works. In antiquity, a pupil would copy a master's work repeatedly until their script was like. The most usual manner is divided into angular and cursive, each further divided into various sub-modes.

 The traditional tool of the Islamic calligrapher is the qalam, a pen normally made of dried reed or bamboo; the ink is often in color, and chosen such that its intensity can vary greatly, hence that the greater strokes of the compositions can be very dynamic in their force. Some trends are frequently composed using a metal-tip pen.

 Islamic calligraphy is applied in a wide scope of decorative mediums other than newspaper, such as tiles, vessels, rugs, and inscriptions. Before the advent of paper, papyrus and parchment were used for authorship. The advent of paper revolutionized calligraphy. While monasteries in Europe, treasured a few dozen volumes, libraries in the Muslim world regularly contained hundreds and even thousands of records.