talk + writing demo: Activating the Sacred Text in Islam

Activating the Sacred Text in Islam: Writing Demonstration
with Muhammad Zakariya and Haji Noor Deen

WHEN: 
12 — 3:30 pm
Sunday, March 30, 2008

WHERE:
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
465 Hungtington Ave.
Boston, Mass.  02115

INFO from event Web site http://www.mfa.org/calendar/event.asp?eventkey=31585&date=3/30/2008:
"Join master calligraphers as they demonstrate different forms of Arabic calligraphy used to write the Koran.

"Mohamed Zakariya is an acknowledged master of classical styles of Arabic script.

"Haji Noor Deen, from China, pens Arabic with a brush in a tradition that was developed among Muslim communities in China and Central Asia."

Funded by the Lowell Institute.

COST:  Included in museum admission