I need a better calligraphy pen this ones so frayed and doesnt do thin strokes that well anymore. But finding a pen alligned for devanagari is so hard and expensive :(
Leaning Urdu through Hindi is so. much. fun! I’m just going through the alphabet at this point but having constant tiny epiphanies like بات - बात or بجانا - बजाना is so amazing. I mean my text book is teaching Urdu through English but I just skip translating mentally from Urdu to English to Finnish part and keep comparing Hindi and Urdu and almost feel like speed learning.
PAKISTAN!!!!! The easternmost periphery of the contiguous Muslim world! Islam’s gateway to the east! The only country in the world using the Nastaliq variant of the Arabic script in everyday communications (imagine if Germany kept Fraktur into the 21st century)! And 100% safe if I fudge the numbers!
Ngl I'd totally visit Pakistan if I had the money for the flight. I think that Lahore and Islamabad sound really interesting. Also I'm really interested in Urdu (I started dabbling in Hindi and wanted to learn them parallel since it's a dialect continuum but then this year happened and oh well)
Ira Mukhoty @Mukhoty wrote : The dual identity of the 18th c Swiss adventurer Antoine Polier displayed in this emerald carved in elegant nastaliq with his Mughal title- Imtiyaz al Daula Iftikhar al Mulk Anthony Polier Bahadur Aslan Jang. Mounted by Cartier (via Twitter: Ira Mukhoty @Mukhoty)
can anyone here read farsi, possibly nastaliq? i want to translate a text from a book (c. 1900) but online text decoders and machine translators keep spitting out gibberish.
Le nastaliq (parfois orthographié nasta'liq) est l'un des styles de calligraphie islamique qui fut développé sur des bases persanes par des calligraphes persans. L'art de la calligraphie a toujours occupé une place prépondérante en Perse et son usage dépasse les limites des pages de livres et de documents pour s'étendre à d'autres domaines artistiques tels que l'architecture, la poterie, le travail du métal, etc.