This brief page from the Washington Calligrapher's Guild gives several illustrations and explanations of calligraphy, lettering, and design. Teachers could use this as a short reference with examples.

In a recent exhibition on Ottoman culture held in Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk was an unimpressive-looking little 18th-century book, a printed version of a manuscript produced 150 years earlier. Usually a manuscript is more rare than a...

A four part essay by Mamoun Sakkal regarding the history and use of the Arabic Alphabet. The site has intriguing articles about the evolution of the alphabet.

Not all manuscripts during the Middle Ages and Renaissance were religious in nature. This period abounded with volumes that contained histories, romances, fables, and legal and scientific writings. The rise of universities paralleled the...

The term Islamic is used here to define the art and material culture of those lands where the dominant religion is Islam, the religion revealed to the prophet Muhammad in seventh century Arabia. The Islamic lands have encompassed at...

This article describes the early excavation successes of the American-Chinese archaeological partnership, the Anyang Project.