Workshop Persian Calligraphy

،The workshop for Iranian calligraphy is held on January 12th at the center for Persian studies.

RTS report for this event is available in [here]

Around one thousand years ago, Ibn Muqlah (Persian: ابنِ مقله بيضاوی شيرازی‎) and his brother created six genres of Iranian calligraphy, namely “Mohaqiq”, “Reyhan”, “Sols”, “Naskh”, “Toqi” and “Reqa”. These genres were common for four centuries in Persia. In the 7th century (Hijri calendar), Hassan Farsi Kateb combined the “Naskh” and “Reqah” styles and invented a new genre of Persian calligraphy named “Ta’liq”. In the 14th century, Mir Ali Tabrizi combined two major scripts of his time, i.e. Naskh and Taliq, and created a new Persian calligraphic style called “Nas’taliq”[2]. In the past 500 years, Nastaʿlīq (also anglicized as Nastaleeq; Persian: نستعلیق‎ nastaʿlīq) has been the predominant style for writing the Perso-Arabic script.

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