Saudi Arabia grants the Syrian calligrapher of the Noble Qur’an, Othman Taha, citizenship

Saudi citizenship was granted to the Syrian calligrapher of the Noble Qur’an, Othman Taha Al-Halabi, in honor of his efforts and dedication to work.

According to the "Madinah Al-Munawwarah News" account on Twitter, the royal order was issued to grant Saudi citizenship to the Syrian calligrapher Othman Taha, while the imam of the Great Mosque of Mecca, Maher Al-Muaiqly, blessed in his Facebook post: "We congratulate the international calligrapher (Taha Othman), the calligrapher of the Noble Qur'an, for issuing The honorable order to grant him Saudi citizenship.”

The international calligrapher was born in the countryside of Aleppo in 1934, and his father, Sheikh Abdo Hussein Taha, the imam and preacher of the mosque and the Sheikh of the Book of the Country, and from him Othman took the principles of calligraphy, where he greatly excelled in the calligraphy of the patch, according to Al-Marsad newspaper.

The calligrapher Othman Taha wrote the Holy Qur’an more than thirteen times, all of which were in the Ottoman drawing, and most of them were printed and spread in the Islamic world. Naskh script in order to avoid confusion with other similar letters, such as: ha'a al-mashqqa'a, al-mim al-mutumuh of all kinds, curved ra'a, and so on.

Othman Taha obtained a license in good calligraphy from the Sheikh of calligraphers in the Islamic world, Professor Hamid Al-Amidi in 1973 AD, and was appointed as a calligrapher for the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Noble Qur’an in Medina since 1988, and a writer for the Qur’ans of the Prophet’s city.

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