Calligraphy is one in every of the most revered artforms in Islamic tradition and Habibulloh Solih is one in every of its main practitioners.
With the title of “master calligrapher,” the Uzbek artist’s work is famend throughout the Islamic world: Solih has made handwritten copies of the Quran seven occasions, in addition to growing his personal distinct font and finding out historic types of calligraphy.
Now, he’s set to show college students and guests all about the conventional inventive expression, at the Center for Islamic Civilization, in Uzbekistan’s capital metropolis of Tashkent.
More than only a museum devoted to sharing Islamic tradition with the world, the heart additionally consists of a youngsters’s zone, a library, convention areas, restoration zones and craft faculties. It’s at one in every of these, the International School of Calligraphy and Book Art, the place Solih will educate.
Solih says calligraphy has been in his household for generations. Through his work at the heart, he’ll assist hold the artform alive and cross it on to new practitioners.
“It doesn’t matter whether a person who knows nothing, [or] is young or old, we have the experience and have prepared manuals to educate them in the shortest possible time,” Solih says.
Watch the video to see the master calligrapher at work.