Arabic Calligraphy: Inspiration through the Ages

By Rafiq Elmansy (admin) | February 10, 2010 | Posted in Inspirations | 27 Comments
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The Arabic calligraphy is a type of Arabic writing that is merged with art and decorative motives along with the different types of Arabic handwritings fonts. The Arabic calligraphy artwork is sued to feature Qura’an (The Muslims holy book), prophet Mohammed words, quotes of wisdom and Arabic poems.

While the Islamic civilization was covering many places on earth in the golden era of Islam or the Islamic Renaissance. The Islam started to integrate and react with other civilizations including writing and calligraphy. However, the Arabic calligraphy art includes different styles based on the location and the artists.

Recent calligraphy artists have joined the classic form of art with modern and contemporary art style. Thus, we can find Arabic calligraphy merged with English writings, modern colors and computer graphics.

Today, I want to share with you a different styles of inspiring Arabic calligraphy and Arabic fonts that I hope you like and hear your comments about it.

Tags: arabic calligraphy, arabic fonts, Fonts

About Rafiq Elmansy (admin)

Rafiq Elmansy is a graphic designer and runs his own design studio Pixel Consultations. He is also an Adobe Community Professional, Certified Expert and Adobe user group manager. He is a Friend of Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations). You can read his writings on Adobe site, Adobe Edge magazine, communitymx.com and his own blog www.graphicmania.net. He can also be followed on Twitter @rafiqelmansy

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February 10, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Designzzz says:

Beautiful !
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February 11, 2010 at 11:53 am
mediajon says:

like your collection
February 11, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Mike says:

Absolutely Beautiful. I love it.
February 11, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Hesham @ FamousBloggers says:

This is my first visit to your blog, it’s awesome Arabic designs, feels home again thanks.
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February 12, 2010 at 7:25 am
Ahmed says:

it’s awesome Arabic designs , Yours Ahmed ^_^ !
February 13, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Rani says:

its amazing ,i really like it. keep it up
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February 14, 2010 at 6:52 am
Nadim Nassar says:

You work is beautiful and inspirational. I am in desperate need of writing the word ??? in a special way to make it a logo for our charity which will be based in the Middle East. We work to build bridges between East and West. If you could write this word for us to use, I will be ever so grateful. Thank you for reading this message. If you decided to help us, you can send it as a picture to my email. nnassar@btinternet.com
Thank you very much and God bless you
Nadim
February 14, 2010 at 6:54 am
Nadim Nassar says:

I am sorry the word did not appear in Arabic. it is the translation of the English word Awareness and the Arabic word in English letters is WAII.
Thank you again and God bless you for for such an amazing work and fantastic talent.
Nadim
February 14, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Ahmed Rabieh says:

Amazing Collection , Thank you
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February 23, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Israa says:

WWWWOOOOOOOOW
i really loved it.
Do u know where can i find cool fonts like these to use it in photo shop?
February 23, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Radwa Samir says:

Hi israa,
Thanks for your comment ,it is art work not fonts .it can be done as a font but manual , good luck
February 27, 2010 at 6:11 pm
John Barrett says:

This is Amazing! Thank you for sharing`-`
February 27, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Hicham says:

amazing!
Thanks for sharing
March 10, 2010 at 7:20 am
Rafiq Elmansy (admin) says:

Thanks alot Nadim for the useful information and happy that you liked the post.
April 2, 2010 at 11:47 pm
H Kaddoura says:

wonderful. Thanks for the sharing the inspirational arabic art. Appreciated.
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April 20, 2010 at 2:40 am
Khaleelullah chemnad says:

Thanks Mr. Rafiq.
its really i honored here, when i saw my work.
thanks and regards
Khaleelullah chemnad
http://www.worldofcalligraphy.com
May 8, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Prema says:

wow! great designs..just love them
May 9, 2010 at 3:35 pm
corina says:

wonderful designe, it can look nice on the wall as wallpaperdesigne
May 19, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Rafiq Elmansy (admin) says:

Thanks alot Khaleelullah, it is my honor to display your amazing artwork on Graphic Mania
July 7, 2010 at 1:02 pm
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