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Ilahi Bukhsh Mutea

21/10/1953

s/o: Fakir Muhammad

Teacher(s): Syed Anwer Husain Nafees Raqam

Student(s): Abd-ur-Razzaq, Qari Duraiz, Naheed Shah, Iqbal Shah, Zubair Shah, Tariq Ayyub, Imran, Rashid, Naeem Muradabadi, Khurram Shehzad

Inspiration:
Thuluth:
Ideal: Hamid al-Amidi
Sami Afandi, Amin Afandi, Majid Az-Zohdi, Abdul Aziz Ar-Rafai
Naskh: Hahiya Hilmi, Hafiz Usman (Popular as Hafiz-il-Quran), Mustafa Izzat
Nastaalique: Syed Anwer Husain Nafees Raqam

Awards and Distinctions:

  • 1st Prize, All Pakistan Exhibition of Calligraphy, National Council of the Arts, Islamabad, 1998.
  • 1st Prize (3 times), All Pakistan S.S.Haider Award, Abasin Arts Council, Peshawar, 1985/1993/1995.
  • 2nd Prize for Calligraphy, International Competition of Painting and Calligraphy, Iran, 1989.
  • 2nd Prize, International Competition for Calligraphy, Pakistan Calligraphers Art Guild, Lahore, 1999.
  • Special Prize for Khat-e-Naskh, Punjab Arts Council, Lahore,1977.
  • Significant Performance Prize, Iranian Cultural Canter, Islamabad.
  • 1st Prize, Iwan-e-Ilm-o-Fan, National Competition of Calligraphy, Gujranwala.

 

Some of the works are being exhibited at:

  • NWFP Assembly Building.
  • Foreign Office.
  • Jamia Mosque Chaklala, Scheme No. 3.
  • Pafar Mosque, FFR Abbotabad.
  • Central Jamia Mosque, Abbotabad.
  • and so many mosques of Islamabad and Hazarah