Sufi art

pt, one of the six classical scripts of Arabic calligraphy. In his Sacred Script (London 2011) Nassar traces the history of this script and, together with examples of his own work which show Muhaqqaq’s versatility, he offers a new copybook (Amshaq) for learning to write the script. He has now published this copybook in separate form (Istanbul 2017) to give us the first extant copybook of its kind. No other examples have come down to us from the past. Nassar’s own researches to define these…

Ibn Arabi takes us on a journey to explore the mysterious relationship between existence, non-existence, God, and creation in his fascinating and controversial theory of reality, the ‘Unity of Being’.