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Name: Â® Safa Khaleelullah â—Š â„¢
Job Title: Arabic Calligrapher
From: CalligraphyLogo.com
Website: http://www.calligraphylogo.com/
Location: Dubai, AE
Member since: 15 September 2008
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He may be the only artist in the world, who uses ‘Anatomic Calligraphy’ a style he has acquired himself through hard work. _______________________________________________________________________

Khaleelullah Chemnad, who fell in love with Arabic letters at a very young age and identified their beauty through drawing pictures with them by treading a new path in the world of calligraphic concepts, is a known face in the world of calligraphy today. He may be the only artist in the world, who uses anatomic calligraphy, a style he has acquired himself through hard work. Anatomic calligraphy is a style in which the portrait of a person is drawn using the person’s name in Arabic or the words describing any other specialties of the person. Best examples of this style are the portrait of the founding president of the UAE late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan drawn using the letters of his name in Arabic and the portrait of poet Sheikh Mana Al Otaiba using the two lines of his poem, “Al Badiya,” which reads “Min Manhalissahrae Akhrafi Ahrafi, Mali Anil Harafil Jariya Badil.” Khaleel has already drawn the portraits of many rulers and important personalities using the letters of their names in the anatomic calligraphic style. This non-Arab calligraphist in Arabic, who draws Arabic letters in such a wonderful style of calligraphy, has been leaving the minds of those who love calligraphic works wonder struck constantly for the last 15 years.

Khaleel, who has always loved art and literature, has taken it up as his means of life. However, calligraphy was his first love. There is one project, which he looks at as a dream project of his life. It is to draw the picture of UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, if he gives permission to him to do so. “It may perhaps become a historic project and open the doors of the Guinness Book World Records to me. It could also be the greatest example of anatomic calligraphy and this history would become a turning point in calligraphy art,” says Khaleel.

There are many other famous works of Khaleel in which he drew the verses of Holy Quran using not only the letters of the verses, but also depicting the meanings through the image. When he drew the chapter Al Feel (elephant) of the Holy Quran using all its verses, it became the picture of an elephant. When he used the verse depicting camel in Quran (Afala Yandhuroona Ilal Ibli Kaifa Khulikath) it took the shape of a camel. These works became the great examples of anatomic style of calligraphy. Most of his calligraphies are the shapes and imageries that form in these types of pictures.

Khaleel may be the only artist who drew calligraphy of the same words in 100 different shapes. He drew the Arabic words Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Al Emarat in 100 different styles each and leaves the spectators wonder struck constantly.

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