Reviews

Calligraphies of Love by Saint Augustine, Sophie Lewis, أبو الطيب المتنبي, Saeb Eigner, Attar of Nishapur, Al-Buhturi, Al Hassan ibn Ali Al-Qadi, Hassan Massoudy, Zouhair Ibn Abi Salma, John Donne, Ibn Arabi, Ibn Zaydoun, Machrab, Abu Al-Atahiya, Kesaï, Elisabeth Jaquette, Mahatma Gandhi, Kahlil Gibran, Al-Senoberi, Mihyār al-Daylamī, Mansur al-Hallaj, Antara ibn Shaddad, Martial, Rumi

aseel_reads's review

emotional fast-paced

3.75

such a beautiful collection!! and I adored reading it both in English and Arabic 

bookwomble's review

4.0

I don't read Arabic, so I can only appreciate Massoudy's calligraphy as abstract art, though even at that his designs are beautiful. Each image is a quotation about love, mainly from classical Arabic poets, but also from European and more contemporary sources, too. A nice book to enjoy as a visual aesthetic. The chosen quotations are interesting, but felt (understandably given the context) too short to really know the writers new to me.