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Arabic calligraphy reading Fatimah az-Zahra. Fatimah was the daughter of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, and is greatly revered by Muslims, often under the extended name Fatimah az-Zahra' , فاطمة الزهراء, or Fatimah Zahra' , فاطمة زهراء. This has then been used as a female given name. [citation needed]
Pages in category "Arabic-language feminine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 217 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Arabic calligraphy can be on occasion be found in places of worship for Muslim's known as Mosques with engravings of Quranic verses / Ayah present on parts of the architecture itself. [19] The most widely recognized example of Arabic Calligraphy on a place of Islamic worship is the Kaaba present in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. [20]
Islamic calligraphy is the artistic practice of penmanship and calligraphy, in the languages which use Arabic alphabet or the alphabets derived from it. It is a highly stylized and structured form of handwriting that follows artistic conventions and is often used for Islamic religious texts , architecture , and decoration . [ 2 ]
A Abbad Abbas (name) Abd al-Uzza Abdus Salam (name) Abd Manaf (name) Abd Rabbo Abdel Fattah Abdel Nour Abdi Abdolreza Abdu Abdul Abdul Ahad Abdul Ali Abdul Alim Abdul Azim Abd al-Aziz Abdul Baqi Abdul Bari Abdul Basir Abdul Basit Abdul Ghaffar Abdul Ghani Abdul Hadi Abdul Hafiz Abdul Hai Abdul Hakim Abdul Halim Abdul Hamid Abdul Haq Abdul Hussein Abdul Jabbar Abdul Jalil Abdul Jamil Abdul ...
Traditionally speaking in the Islamic empire, Arabic calligraphy was the common form of recording texts. Calligraphy is the practice or art of decorative handwriting. [3] The demand for calligraphy in the early stages of the Islamic empire (circa 7–8th century CE) can be attributed to a need to produce Qur'an manuscripts.
The Hurufiyya movement (Arabic: حروفية ḥurūfiyyah adjectival form ḥurūfī, 'of letters' of the alphabet) is an aesthetic movement that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century amongst artists from Muslim countries, who used their understanding of traditional Islamic calligraphy within the precepts of modern art.
Rayhana or Reyhana (Arabic:رَيْحَانَة rayḥānah), also spelt Rayhaana, Reyhaana, Rihana, Rihaana, is an Arabic female given name meaning the herb plant basil. However, the name may possibly derived from the noun rā’iḥāh (رائِحَة) meaning "scent, aroma, smell, odor" or "fragrance or perfume" or "zest of a fruit peel".