Uthman ibn Abduh ibn Husayn ibn Taha Alkurdi (or Uthman Taha, ar, عثمان طه) is a Syrian-Saudi
calligrapher of the Quran in the Arabic language renowned for hand-writing
Mushaf al-Madinah issued by the
King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'an.
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Uthman Taha
, AlRiyadh newspaper, November 23, 2006.
He was born in 1934 in a rural area of
Aleppo
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Syria. Gaining a BA in
Shari’ah
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from the
University of Damascus
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, he also studied
Arabic language,
Islamic decoration arts, and painting.
He gained certification (Turkish
icazet) in calligraphy from
Hamid al-Amidi, the so-called master of calligraphers in the Islamic world. He was also taught calligraphy by Muhammad Ali al-Mawlawi, Ibrahim al-Rifa’i (Aleppo), Muhammad Badawi al-Diyrani (Damascus) and Hashim al-Baghdadi.
He wrote his first
Mushaf
A muṣḥaf ( ar, مُصْحَفْ, ; plural ''maṣāḥif'') is an Arabic word for a codex or collection of sheets, but also refers to a written copy of the Quran. The chapters of the Quran, which Muslims believe was revealed during a 23-y ...
(written copy of the
Qur’an) in 1970.
In 1988 he travelled to
Saudi Arabia and was assigned a handwriter and calligrapher in the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'an in
Madina
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.
The same year he was made a member of the international jury for the
Arabic Calligraphy Award
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which is held in
Istanbul once every three years.
During the first 18 years of his life at the King Fahd Complex, Uthman hand-wrote four
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more than 200 million copies of which were distributed worldwide.
, he has hand-written 12 Maṣāḥif.
A Muṣḥaf usually requires more than 3 years in writing and an additional year for proof-reading and reviewing.
His beautiful, clear, easy-to-read style used in the Madina Muṣḥaf is also used in a commercial copy known as
Mushaf al-Tajweed
A muṣḥaf ( ar, مُصْحَفْ, ; plural ''maṣāḥif'') is an Arabic word for a codex or collection of sheets, but also refers to a written copy of the Quran. The chapters of the Quran, which Muslims believe was revealed during a 23-year ...
.
He was granted Saudi citizenship in December 2021.
See also
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Uthman Taha Quran
References
External links
The King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'anBiography/interview
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1934 births
Living people
People from Aleppo
Syrian Sunni Muslims
Syrian calligraphers
Calligraphers of Arabic script
Damascus University alumni
20th-century calligraphers