Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Kamyar Sedaghat Samarhosseini

Faculty member of institute of humanities and cultural studies

Abstract

The present article, with a structural approach, and by classification of hadiths assigned to Holiness Prophet Muhammad (S) and the Innocent Imams (A) on Writing and Calligraphy, considering historical periods of issuance of each hadith, is allocated to this question that what periods and processes of the history of science in Islamic civilization, in particular, in its first centuries, are explainable by analyzing Writing and Calligraphy hadiths . Based on such analysis, one can understand better the cultural and artistic developments of golden ages of Islamic World, i.e., Third to Fifth Hijri centuries.

The prophet's hadiths confirms the Revelation writing, public education, moral and spiritual training of the writers, and emphasizing on basic education of handwriting encouraging beautiful writing and calligraphy. However, symbols of flourishing of Islamic civilization, such as unexampled evolution of Islamic scripts, researchers, development of sciences, creation of calligraphy jobs, and excellent writing of Quran, were gradually embodied in Ahl-e Beit's (the Innocents') Hadiths, which proves the development of Culture and Sciences in Islamic Civilization.

Keywords

• Holy Quran
• Hadih
• Iearning science
• Calligraphy
• Writing

Main Subjects

• Art