INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
inaugurated on Friday and will continue until August 20.Some 80 exquisite Nastaliq calligraphy works from prominent calligrapher Sayed Ali
in international societies and even in Iran, will be displayed in the exhibition.Nastaliq is one of the main calligraphic hands used to
write the Perso-Arabic script, and it is used for some Indo-Iranian languages, predominantly Classical Persian, Urdu, Kashmiri, Saraiki and
It is often used also for Ottoman Turkish poetry, but rarely for Arabic.Nastaliq developed in Iran from Naskh beginning in the 13th century
and remains very widely used in Iran, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan and other countries for written poetry and as a form of art.ZM/
