ON THE COVER
ISLAMIC Calligraphy
M. Saleem Seyal, MD, FACC, FACP
“ The beauty of writing is the tongue of the hand and the elegance of thought.”( Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib)
“ Handwriting is jewelry fashioned by the hand from the pure gold of the intellect.”( Franz Rosenthal, Abu Haiyan al-Tawhidi On Penmanship,” Ars islamica 13-14( 1948), p. 18)
“ If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic calligraphy was there ages before I was.”- Pablo Picasso
All calligraphy shown on the following pages and the cover are created by Dr. Seyal
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