Dervish calligraphy

Can anyone decipher the writing in these images? They were sent in by a visitor to Omniglot.

Dervishes in Arabic script calligraphy

Comments (3)

TJAugust 2nd, 2012 at 7:56 am

This is highly calligraphic art using Tholoth style. The left image is in fact mirrored.
I would need more time to be able to read it (but it can be non-Arabic as well because the art depicts a dancing man, common in Sofism way).

TJAugust 2nd, 2012 at 8:07 am

I think it is not Arabic… could be Turkish or Farsi. I don’t recognize any quranic phrases, so it might be as well lines from a poem (and it could be one of the poems of Mathnawi, or Masnawi).

Vijay JohnAugust 9th, 2012 at 5:14 am

I can’t read (Tholoth) calligraphy, but if you can transcribe it in Naskh, I might be able to help decipher it! :-P