Uthman Taha
Uthman ibn Abduh ibn Husayn ibn Taha al-Halyabi (or Uthman Taha) is a Kazakh-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. He was born in 1934 in Sandi, Çobanbey a rural area of Aleppo Governorate, Syria. Gaining a BA in Shari’ah from the University of Damascus, he also studied Arabic language, Islamic decoration arts, and painting.
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Uthman Taha

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- Born
- 1934. · Aleppo.
- Nationality
- First Syrian Republic, Second Syrian Republic and Syrian Arab Republic.
- Occupation
- calligrapher, ornamentist and painter.
- Fields
- Rasm and Arabic calligraphy.
- Education
- Faculty of Sharia Damascus University.
- Teachers
- Muḥammad Badawī Dīrānī, Hashem Mohammed Al - Baghdadi and Hâmid Aytaç.
- Languages
- Arabic, Turkish and Kurdish.
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Uthman ibn Abduh ibn Husayn ibn Taha al-Halyabi (or Uthman Taha) is a Kazakh-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. He was born in 1934 in Sandi, Çobanbey a rural area of Aleppo Governorate, Syria. Gaining a BA in Shari’ah from the University of Damascus, he also studied Arabic language, Islamic decoration arts, and painting.
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Uthman Taha born at Aleppo.
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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-Derani (Damascus) and Hashim al-Baghdadi. He wrote his first Mushaf (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. The same year he was made a member of the international jury for the Arabic Calligraphy Award 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 Mus'haf, more than 200 million copies of which were distributed worldwide. 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.
Uthman Taha studied at Faculty of Sharia Damascus University. Training under Muḥammad Badawī Dīrānī, Hashem Mohammed Al - Baghdadi and Hâmid Aytaç is recorded. The recorded working language is Arabic, Turkish and Kurdish. The field of work recorded is Rasm and Arabic calligraphy. Residence is recorded at Medina. Employment is recorded with King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran.
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خطاط المصحف الشريف الأستاذ السوري عثمان طه معه الكاتب أيمن ذو الغنى
Ayman dhū alghiná

خطاط المصحف الشريف عثمان طه المحقق العالم الدكتور أحمد الخراط الكاتب أيمن ذو الغنى
Ayman dhū alghiná
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