TEHRAN – A group of masters and students of calligraphy in Iran have written the text of the Qur’an to protest against the desecration of the holy Muslim book that took place in Sweden on June 29.
The calligraphers gathered in a mosque in western Iranian province of Kordestan to write the holy Qur’an in various styles of Persian calligraphy including Nastaliq, Naskh and Thulth, a provincial cultural official told reporters on Wednesday.
Afshin Azadi described the participation of the calligraphers in such a cultural campaign as a move to help foil plots against the World of Islam.
A Swedish extremist burned pages of the holy Qur’an in front of the eyes of about two hundred Muslims in Stockholm on June 29.