Not padhe likhe (educated),” says the calligraphy teacher at Hyderabad’s Idaara-e-Adabiyaat-e-Urdu. “It would take about a year to teach you the Nastaliq script used in Urdu calligraphy.

Zuhair Albazi, developer of the Zuhair Albazi Naskh and the Musa Albazi Naskh Font, says, “it is a real masterpiece of Nastaliq calligraphy.

He was a schoolboy in the summer of 1976, keen on playing in the scorching heat of Rawalpindi. But his mother wanted him to remain indoors, so she taught him to write Hindi in the Devanagari script.

The present-day Urdu publishing owes its elegant contours to the calligraphic skills of this great wizard of calligraphy. Before being used in the composing software, InPage, the Noori Nastaliq ...

0 Listen to article 1.2x 1.5x Join our Whatsapp channel Ahmed Mirza Jameel NASTA’LEEQ, also spelt nastaliq, is considered the most beautiful of all hands used in Persian and Urdu calligraphy.

Aslam Kiratpuri, master calligrapher of ‘nastaliq school’, who also teaches a certificate course in Urdu calligraphy at Mumbai University, says that out of 30 students in his class, seven are ...

Mir Ali Tabrizi also known as Mir Ali Heravi was a distinguished Persian calligrapher to whom the invention of Nastaliq calligraphy style is attributed. Born in Herat (present-day Afghanistan) and ...