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

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.

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.

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 ...