Comments on: Music of the Eye http://calligraphyqalam.com/blog/calligraphy-artists/music-of-the-eye/ Arabic, Ottoman & Persian Calligraphy Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Rauf Jaleel http://calligraphyqalam.com/blog/calligraphy-artists/music-of-the-eye/comment-page-1/#comment-239 Rauf Jaleel Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:57:08 +0000 http://calligraphyqalam.com/blog/?p=228#comment-239 The true and the beautiful side of Muslim Ummah is not been reflected in the popular media.May Allah bless you for all these efforts to reveal this beautiful face of Muslim culture. All the information and the videos in your website are marvelous and most appreciable. There is another Master Calligrapher in the USA from Syria his name is Mamoun SAkkal, it will be highly appreciated if he may be the subject of next documentary by Sanaa Boutayeb Naim ! Thank you very much. The true and the beautiful side of Muslim Ummah is not been reflected in the popular media.May Allah bless you for all these efforts to reveal this beautiful face of Muslim culture.
All the information and the videos in your website are marvelous and most appreciable.
There is another Master Calligrapher in the USA from Syria his name is Mamoun SAkkal, it will be highly appreciated if he may be the subject of next documentary by Sanaa Boutayeb Naim !

Thank you very much.

]]> By: joan mckniff http://calligraphyqalam.com/blog/calligraphy-artists/music-of-the-eye/comment-page-1/#comment-216 joan mckniff Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:13:47 +0000 http://calligraphyqalam.com/blog/?p=228#comment-216 My friend Anne O'Leary introduced you, at least the virtual you, to me. It is an honor and privilege to see a bit of your work and this wonderful video. I thought you might like to hear this little true story, I was on a crowded train in Maroc, not in a window seat, so I decided to write and address my Christmas cards. The stamp I was using was your Eid stamp. After some time the old man across from me asked in halting French, as I don't speak Arabic, if I knew that decoration was in Arabic. I said yes, that I greatly admired it, and that it was a postal stamp. From the where, he asked and was dumbfounded when I said from USA. He then asked me 12 ways if it really worked as postage, was it freely sold, and on. He then took the stamped envelope and passed it to the other 4 people in our compartment leading a heated conversation that even I could recognize was full of amazement. He then left, with my stamped envelope, to deliver this news to several other compartments. When I got out of the train in the rain, facing a slippery flight of stairs, there was no end of people to help me, rather ordered about by the old man seat mate. Only when i got to the street, did a preteen boy express amazement that M. X, a most conservative religious leader, was being so friendly and protective of me. Thank you. My friend Anne O’Leary introduced you, at least the virtual you, to me. It is an honor and privilege to see a bit of your work and this wonderful video. I thought you might like to hear this little true story, I was on a crowded train in Maroc, not in a window seat, so I decided to write and address my Christmas cards. The stamp I was using was your Eid stamp. After some time the old man across from me asked in halting French, as I don’t speak Arabic, if I knew that decoration was in Arabic. I said yes, that I greatly admired it, and that it was a postal stamp. From the where, he asked and was dumbfounded when I said from USA. He then asked me 12 ways if it really worked as postage, was it freely sold, and on. He then took the stamped envelope and passed it to the other 4 people in our compartment leading a heated conversation that even I could recognize was full of amazement. He then left, with my stamped envelope, to deliver this news to several other compartments.

When I got out of the train in the rain, facing a slippery flight of stairs, there was no end of people to help me, rather ordered about by the old man seat mate. Only when i got to the street, did a preteen boy express amazement that M. X, a most conservative religious leader, was being so friendly and protective of me.

Thank you.

]]> By: Elisabeth http://calligraphyqalam.com/blog/calligraphy-artists/music-of-the-eye/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Elisabeth Tue, 26 May 2009 00:40:47 +0000 http://calligraphyqalam.com/blog/?p=228#comment-17 Dear Dr. Osman, Thank you for your kind words; I will pass them along to the filmmaker, Sanaa. I invite you to visit calligraphyqalam.com regularly for updates on events and exhibitions about Islamic calligraphy. If you're in Istanbul, start with a visit to IRCICA: http://www.ircica.org/. And you will find excellent calligraphy at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum: http://muze.sabanciuniv.edu/main/default.php?bytLanguageID=2 Elisabeth Dear Dr. Osman,
Thank you for your kind words; I will pass them along to the filmmaker, Sanaa. I invite you to visit calligraphyqalam.com regularly for updates on events and exhibitions about Islamic calligraphy.

If you’re in Istanbul, start with a visit to IRCICA: http://www.ircica.org/. And you will find excellent calligraphy at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum: http://muze.sabanciuniv.edu/main/default.php?bytLanguageID=2

Elisabeth

]]> By: Dr Osman Khan http://calligraphyqalam.com/blog/calligraphy-artists/music-of-the-eye/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Dr Osman Khan Fri, 22 May 2009 22:14:48 +0000 http://calligraphyqalam.com/blog/?p=228#comment-15 I was delighted to browse your brief film on calligraphy by Muhammad Zakriya. I would like to be on your mailing list for all key events on Islamic Calligraphy. I am planning to visit Turkey and Morocco. Would appreciate your guidance if I were to focus on visits to centers of excellence and museums on the subject. Kind Regards An amatuer Calligrapher I was delighted to browse your brief film on calligraphy by Muhammad Zakriya.
I would like to be on your mailing list for all key events on Islamic Calligraphy.
I am planning to visit Turkey and Morocco. Would appreciate your guidance if I were to focus on visits to centers of excellence and museums on the subject.

Kind Regards
An amatuer Calligrapher

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