<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/71c2ca0f-8ce9-4726-8d1a-6b225fb42f90/7A2F547E-9DEE-4893-964B-735E06C554DC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/06/zoomorphic-calligraphy.html" href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/06/zoomorphic-calligraphy.html" style="font-size: 11px;">bibliodyssey.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/06/zoomorphic-calligraphy.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/09D2F847-C72E-4586-9D22-6FA80184EDAE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/06/zoomorphic-calligraphy.html"><BLOCKQUOTE><DIV>"This new mode was not a matter of script metamorphosing into living forms which are also readable letters, but of using script to delineate such forms. Seldom had the flexibility of the Arabic alphabet been so tested.</DIV><BR /><DIV>This practice established itself only relatively late in Islamic art, when the taboos outlawing religious iconography had lost some of their power.</DIV><BR />[Zoomorphic calligraphy] developed [..] in Ottoman Turkey, India and Qajar Iran [and] was known as early as 1458."</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Hassan%20Musa%20e.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/400/Hassan%20Musa%20e.jpg" /></A><BR /><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Hassan%20Musa%20f.gif"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/400/Hassan%20Musa%20f.png" /></A><BR /><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Hassan%20Musa.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/400/Hassan%20Musa.jpg" /></A><BR /><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Hassan%20Musa%20b.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/400/Hassan%20Musa%20b.jpg" /></A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/06/zoomorphic-calligraphy.html"><BR /><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Hassan%20Musa%20c1.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/400/Hassan%20Musa%20c1.jpg" /></A><BR /><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Hassan%20Musa%20d.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/400/Hassan%20Musa%20d.jpg" /></A>All the above zoomorphic (and anthropomorphic) works are © <A href="http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/sh40/Musa.html">Hassan Musa</A> from Sudan.<BR /><DIV>Most, but not all of these images come from the <A href="http://www.sudanartists.org/hassanmusa.htm">Sudan Artists Gallery</A>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/06/zoomorphic-calligraphy.html"><BR /><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Lions.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/400/Lions.jpg" /></A><BR /><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Menagerie.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/400/Menagerie.jpg" /></A><BR /><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Besmele%2C%20calligraphy%20shape%20of%20bird%20figure%20In%20name%20of%20Allah%2CMost%20Gracious%2C%20Most%20Merciful%20%28Besmele%29%20Author%20Seda.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/400/Besmele%2C%20calligraphy%20shape%20of%20bird%20figure%20In%20name%20of%20Allah%2CMost%20Gracious%2C%20Most%20Merciful%20%28Besmele%29%20Author%20Seda.jpg" /></A><BR /><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Horse.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/400/Horse.jpg" /></A><BR /><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Fish.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/400/Fish.jpg" /></A><BR /><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Jill%201.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/400/Jill%201.jpg" /></A>"Hafez (d. 1390) is Iran’s premier and most quoted lyric poet.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/06/zoomorphic-calligraphy.html">The painter and printmaker Jila Peacock has chosen ten love poems from Hafez and following the footsteps of the great Islamic calligraphers, has produced ten shape-poems that sit by her own translations from the Persian."<BR /><A href="http://www.jilapeacock.co.uk/hafez.htm">Jila Peacock's</A> '<A href="http://www.sylpheditions.com/hafez.html"><SPAN>Ten Poems from Hafez</SPAN></A>', </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/06/zoomorphic-calligraphy.html"><BR /><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/man..%20Contemporary%20Moroccan%20calligraphic%20panel.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/400/man..%20Contemporary%20Moroccan%20calligraphic%20panel.jpg" /></A><BR /><DIV><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/17th%20century%20Ottoman%20turkey%20%28micrography%29.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/400/17th%20century%20Ottoman%20turkey%20%28micrography%29.jpg" /></A>17th century</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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