Mohamed Zakariya was born in 1942 in Ventura, California, the son of art director Emrich Nicholson and Amy Aplin.[2][3] Later he moved to Los Angeles with his family. Zakariya saw Islamic calligraphy for the first time in the window of an Armenian carpet store in Los Angeles.[1] Zakariya traveled to Morocco in his late teens where he became fascinated with Islam and Islamic Calligraphy.[1] After returning from his trip to the United States he converted to Islam.[1]
Zakariya studied manuscripts in the British Museum. He then studied with the Egyptian calligrapher Abdussalam Ali-Nour. Afterward, in 1984, he traveled to Istanbul and became a student of the Turkish master calligrapher Hasan Celebi. He received his diploma from Celebi in 1988 at the Research Center of Islamic History, Art, and Culture in Istanbul. He is the first American to receive this honor. In 1997, he received his second diploma, in the ta'liq script, from the master calligrapher Ali Alparslan.[1]
Students worldwide travel to the United States to study under Zakariya.[1]
Calligraphyedit
Zakariya's work is held in private collections and some public collections. He designed a postage stamp for the United States Postal Service to commemorate Eid, which appeared in three editions in 2009, 2011, and 2013.[6][7] In 2009, US presidentBarack Obama commissioned Mohamed Zakariya to create a piece of calligraphy that was presented to the king of Saudi Arabia.[1]
Referencesedit
^ abcdefgWorld religions. Western traditions. Oxtoby, Willard Gurdon,, Hussain, Amir, 1965-, Amore, Roy C., 1942- (Fourth ed.). Don Mills, Ontario, Canada. 2014. p. 277. ISBN978-0-19-900287-0. OCLC 862545152.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
^"Art talent took Venturan to many places, careers", Ventura County Star (Ventura CA) March 9, 2001, p.17
"The Soul Searcher", Psychology Today, May/June 2004.
"The World of Mohamed Zakariya", Saudi Aramco, January/February 1992.
External linksedit
Mohamed Zakariya's homepage
March 13, 2024
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