From Rumi:
Seek the science that unties for you this knot.
Seek it as long as there’s life in you still to be sought.
Leave that nothing that looks like it is something;
Seek that something that looks like nothing; … Read More
Persian calligraphy created as a tattoo design for a client. www.palmstone.com
Wedding Monogram created by Stewart J. Thomas combines two names inside of a floral teardrop. www.palmstone.com
“To thine self be true” Arabic calligraphy by S. J. Thomas, www.palmstone.com
“if you want light, you must light a fire” Persian poetry by Jalaluddin Maulana Rumi. Persian (Farsi) calligraphy by Stewart J. Thomas www.palmstone.com.
Freedom “Azadi” Persian calligraphy design by Stewart J. Thomas, www.palmstone.com
Poetry by Jalaluddin Rumi, calligraphy by Stewart J. Thomas, palmstone.com. A popular translation of this passage reads:
“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t … Read More
Sarbaz-e Azadi “Soldier of Freedom” designed as a Farsi (Persian) tattoo for a client, by S. J. Thomas. www.palmstone.com
Bird Calligraphy in Arabic Script. Calligraphy design by Stewart J. Thomas www.palmstone.com
Islamic Marriage Certificate with original border design in watercolour and gouache; Bismallah in black, copper and gold ink; and calligraphy in Arabic and English. The top section is in Arabic from the Qu’ran, with an English gloss of the text … Read More
Detail of the headpiece of a marriage certificate produced in September 2013. This commission includes geometric Islamic borders, birds and the watercolour headpiece shown here. More details to be posted soon. The Bismallah is in raised gold and the body … Read More
This was commissioned by a follower of Meher Baba. Calligraphy by Stewart J. Thomas, www.palmstone.com
A very loose rendering of contemporary Kufic style calligraphy. This is a Persian phrase that could be rendered into English as “In this world, not of this world.” Calligraphy by Stewart J. Thomas. Commissions accepted at www.Palmstone.com
Earlier I posted the draft design for this commission. This is a photograph of the completed painting featuring the last lines of Khalil Gibran’s poem on marriage. Original calligraphic painting in Arabic by calligrapher Stewart J. Thomas.
A great selection of Persian fonts and handwritten calligraphy in different sign formats. Great photograph, too. I love reflections and how they show the layering of what’s taking place in life. The intimacy of three people at a sandwich shop … Read More
purplefigtree:
(Pages on astronomy from the Timbuktu Manuscripts).
Libraries of Timbuktu
“At the height of the city’s golden age, Timbuktu boasted not only the impressive libraries of Sankore and the other mosques, but also a wealth of private ones. One … Read More
Mausoleum of the 11th century poet and mystic, Baba Tahir, Hamedan, Iran
artinparsi:
Ketubah from Esfahan, Persia, 1840s, unknown artist
Note the sun figures rising from behind the lions – traditional Iranian theme, and parrots – still associated with Ketubim from Iran to Spain.
isqineeha:
Boxes Series – Iranian Artist BATOOL MOAZZEN SHOWGHI
This is a draft of a design I created for a commissioned calligraphic painting of the last line of Khalil Gibran’s poem on marriage. For the actual painting I used a different layout of the calligraphy, which I will post … Read More
I really like this unusual presentation of the Bismallah: In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful.
Vertical Basmallah Calligraphy
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Originally … Read More
purplefigtree:
purplefigtree:
Solomon Enthroned with Angels, Beasts, and Demons Folio from a Safavid manuscript, 1575–90
Unknown Artist, Shiraz, Iran.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art.
“This folio is half of … Read More
