Contemporary Calligraphy in Iran: The Techniques and Characteristics of the Nasta‘liq Script
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Dr. Hamidreza Ghelichkhani
Dr. Hamidreza Ghelichkhani was born in 1968 in Tehran and began seriously practicing calligraphy in 1983. In 1988 he received a certificate of high distinction from the Association of Iranian Calligraphers in the Nasta‘līq and Thuluth calligraphic styles. He is a member of the Iran Academy of Arts. He has also authored several important reference works on Islamic calligraphy, such as A Dictionary of Calligraphy and the Related Arts (1994, Tehran and published in English by Brill in 2014), Zar Afshān: A Dictionary of Terms Relating to Calligraphy, Ornament, and the Making of Manuscripts as Found in Classical Persian Poetry, a critical edition of Tazkera Ḥayāt-i Khoshnevīsān by Muhammad Husain Alavi, a critical edition based on four manuscripts, of Mir’āt al-Iṣṭilāh by Anandram Mokhlis, and An Introduction to Persian Calligraphy.
Contact: Sarah Meyrick
Sponsor(s): Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and the Outreach Program at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
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