Saturday, 8 April 2017

Islamic art (manuscript illumination islam)

hi guys !!

in Islamic countries, whether in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Parsi or malaysia, islam calligraphy always enjoy the highest place in the hierarchy of art islam.misi they are like gods to copy the word in the Quran .In Malaysia, calligraphy not only to copy newspapers and religious texts such as the hadith, literary history and doctrine of Islam but also its target to write and record all the documents to the king.for example, they had to write letters to respond officially to record the history of empires and their rulers, laws and constitution drafting the traditional to the agreement between the sultan and british east india company. they wrote legends and poetry in Malay Jawi or Arabic letters hijaiyah converted and used in writing Sanskrit Malay Malay to replace the old and the letter does wedge . malaysia early Islamic calligraphy is evidenced by the existence of Malay history, handwriting and literary history of the Malay in Jawi as Tajul Salatin, Hikayat Abdullah, Chronicles of the Kings article and so on.In Malaysia Islamic calligraphy calligraphy not only use only on paper, but they also have written on various media such as stone, wood, pottery, leather palm, fabric and so on .

                                                     Islamic calligraphy carved in stone


                                             Islamic calligraphy shaped carving on wood


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