Arabic Calligraphy Class with Amy from Singapore

In the last decades of the Twentieth Century the spiritual influence of Mevlâna Jalâluddîn Rumi is being strongly felt by people of diverse beliefs throughout the Western world. He is being recognized here in the West, as he has been for seven centuries in the Middle East and Western Asia, as one of the greatest […]

SPECIAL ISTANBUL by Barbara Nadel Anyone who lives or works in a great city like Istanbul has their own special and favourite places within it. And although I don’t reside in the city myself, I am a frequent visitor by virtue of being the author of six crime novels set in Istanbul. These books, all […]

When we speak of Turkish calligraphy, we refer to writing of aesthetic value in characters based on the Arabic script, which the Turks had adopted as their writing medium after their conversion to Islam. The Arabic characters gradually assumed an aesthetic function after the advent of Islam, and this process gathered momentum from the mid-eighth […]