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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