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Nassar Mansour

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Nassar Mansour (Arabic: نصّار منصور), (born February 2, 1967), is an artist, calligrapher, academic and designer in the field of Islamic Arts, specializing in Islamic Calligraphy. He is considered to be one of the most accomplished contemporary Arab calligraphers today.

Nassar is best known for his serious academic research on Islamic Calligraphy and for his academic and artistic efforts in reviving ''Muhaqqaq'' (one of the six classical scripts الخطوط الستة) as a successful artistic medium for contemporary Islamic calligraphers. Nassar was the first Jordanian to obtain the traditional ''Ijaza'' in calligraphy from the Islamic world's premier master calligrapher, Hasan Çelebi, in 2003, Istanbul. In April 2018, he was awarded The Artistic Creativity Award for his academic and artistic efforts in reviving the Muhaqqaq script by the Arab Thought Foundation (ATF). Provided by Wikipedia