{"id":5924,"date":"2020-12-02T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2020-12-03T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T20:23:38","slug":"beauty-in-solitude-calligraphy-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2020\/12\/02\/beauty-in-solitude-calligraphy-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty in Solitude: Calligraphy conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reed Society for the Sacred Arts will host a virtual conversation between Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Detroit calligrapher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/people\/university\/ces\/mechanical\/dukhan-nihad\"><strong>Nihad Dukhan<\/strong><\/a> 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, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/beautyinsolitude.com\/\">Beauty in Solitude<\/a>,\u201d a celebration of an artistic transmission chain which has continued, uninterrupted, from the 15th century Ottoman master \u015eeyh Hamdullah to present day. Two albums of calligraphic pieces attributed to \u015eeyh 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.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/beauty-in-solitude-calligrapher-nihad-dukhan-and-curator-evyn-kropf-tickets-128344205975\">Register for the event online<\/a>.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[672,3618,3611,211,3613,209,3616,3615,3617,3612,3614,3619],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-1xy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5926,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions\/5926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}