The Reed Society for the Sacred Arts will host a virtual conversation between Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Detroit calligrapher Nihad Dukhan and University of Michigan Library Islamic Manuscripts Collection Curator Evyn Kropf on Friday, Dec. 4 at 5 p.m. This event continues a series of dialogues surrounding the online exhibition, “Beauty in Solitude,” a celebration of an artistic transmission chain which has continued, uninterrupted, from the 15th century Ottoman master Şeyh Hamdullah to present day. Two albums of calligraphic pieces attributed to Şeyh Hamdullah are preserved in the Islamic Manuscripts Collection, Isl. Ms. 236 and Isl. Ms. 244. Dukhan studied under the noted Istanbul grand master calligrapher Hasan Celebi and received his Ijazah, a master scribe degree, after 11 years of study.
