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.Ghawi, Ahmad.
Uthman Taha
, AlRiyadh newspaper, November 23, 2006. He was born in 1934 in a rural area of

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. Gaining a BA in

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from the

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, he also studied

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, 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-year ...

(written copy of the

Qur’an The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , sing.: ...

) in 1970. In 1988 he travelled to

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and was assigned a handwriter and calligrapher in the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'an in

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. The same year he was made a member of the international jury for the Arabic Calligraphy Award which is held in

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once every three years. During the first 18 years of his life at the King Fahd Complex, Uthman hand-wrote four https://www.arabnews.com/node/1719556/saudi-arabia, 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. He was granted Saudi citizenship in December 2021.

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The King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'an

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Taha, Uthman 1934 births Living people People from Aleppo Syrian Sunni Muslims Syrian calligraphers Calligraphers of Arabic script Damascus University alumni 20th-century calligraphers

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