#  Contemporary Calligraphy in Iran: The Techniques and Characteristics of the Nasta‘liq Script 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 14, 2014** 

 04:00PM - 05:30PM EDT 

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 **CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

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   ![Siah Mashq](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/man-ze-besyari-250px_0.jpg?itok=NRgqY02S) 

 

**The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and the Outreach Program at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies** present a lecture and demonstration by**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*.

   ![Hamidreza Ghelichkhani](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/Ghelichkhani-250px.jpg?itok=gx4yktIx) 

 

**Contact:** [Sarah Meyrick](mailto:smeyrick@fas.harvard.edu)  
**Sponsor(s):** Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and the Outreach Program at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies

*As a Title VI National Resource Center, CMES is partially funding this program with U.S. Department of Education grant funds. The content of this program does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Education.*



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Outreach ](/eventseries/outreach)
- [ Film & Visual Art ](/research-field/film-visual-art)
- [ Iran ](/research-region/iran)
- [ 2014-15 ](/academic-year/2014-15)
 
 

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