Islamic Art in Britain

Posted under art, dhikr by rahma

Visual Dhikr highlights some of the artists that will be showing their work at Islam Expo 2008.  Go check it out and visit their websites.

The muslim art I have hanging on my walls is calligraphy, but I can definately see putting something like this up.  It’s a depiction of the haraam, the kaba in the middle, people doing tawaf around it and the outer rings making salat.  So simple, yet I’m deeply intrieged.

 

 Ya Waduud!  Oh Loving One!

The familiar calligraphy lines still draw the eye and lead one to contemplate the Divine.

 

‘The pursuit of knowledge is bitter at first but at the end it is sweeter than honey’

Again, different from what I’m used to, but so captivating.  Seriously, I’m in love.