Answering your question wildmac and supporting Mani33's answer, Arabic has 28 letters and they work like english letters combined to create words, and then sentences also having some vowels, but there is some differences in writing for example we write f [Read more...] posted in Arabic Calligraphy

Answering your question wildmac and supporting Mani33's answer, Arabic has 28 letters and they work like english letters combined to create words, and then sentences also having some vowels, but there is some differences in writing for example we write from right to left. We connect letter together in the same word in most cases. Then some letters will be written in more than one shape depending on its position in the word. and finally as an overall concept we have several styles of writing, these styles developed as independent arts regarding the areas, for example there is pesian style, andalusyan style in Spain, Dewani style in Baghdad, and several others; here where it comes to be complicated even for arabs.. sorry for talking too much :) posted in Arabic Calligraphy