As for learning khat, Jawi or Chinese calligraphy in school, there is nothing religious or racial about it. Unfortunately, in Malaysia’s polarised society, matters of this nature can easily be ...

The issue of introducing the Jawi calligraphy in Bahasa Melayu textbooks in vernacular schools has become a heated topic in the country’s Chinese community. Beginning next year, ...

The ban of Chinese Organisations Joint Congress has intensified the already highly sensitive issue. Let me first state my personal position. I feel that the Jawi calligraphy should never be a ...

Non-Muslim organisations are allowed to display Jawi calligraphy bearing the name of Prophet Muhammad, as long as the displayed objects are not portraits of the prophet or the Quran, and are not ...

HUAZONG is urging the government to put aside the implementation of Jawi calligraphy in primary schools for the time being and cancel this year’s attempt by the Education Ministry to send out ...

ALOR SETAR, June 22 (Bernama) -- A former Geography and Cartography lecturer at Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah took on the role of elevating the use of Jawi writing through the art of Islamic ...

Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Religious Affairs), Senator Dr Zulkifli Hasan (second, left) during the launch of Batik Jawi Calligraphy Collection by Indah Atelier. Also present, ...

Norizan Mat Diah, Marina Ismail, Putri Mazliana Abdul Hami and Suzana Ahmad of UiTM Shah Alam, Malaysia developed a software to teach children Jawi calligraphy. UiTM lecturers are reviving Jawi, the ...

PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A meeting to discuss Jawi writing in Malaysia's Chinese and Tamil language schools on Sunday (Dec 29) passed several resolutions, chief of which was to ...

Arabic calligraphy is a traditional art form cherished by Muslims worldwide, and the Jawi script has adopted Arabic characters and writing techniques to produce exquisite artwork.

Hence, Jawi was used in the Christian Bible in the 19th century. “Slide two gave examples of other reading materials which used Jawi, including pornographic reading materials,” her statement read.

I began to love the Arabic/Jawi calligraphy and doing my own practice of khat (calligraphy) in my own sweet time. Even today, I am still terrible at it.