Dhikr - A Sufi Chant by Joumana Medlej
Joumana Medlej

Dhikr - A Sufi Chant by

See also the gold and red version.
Limited edition silkscreen prints (ivory on black, with or without gold) are available

Having attended a Sufi sema3 ceremony, I was fascinated by a dhikr (remembrance) chant that repeated 2 sentences in an endlessly repetitive sequence, like a mantra:
Allahu akbar
Allahu akbar
La ilah ella Allah

The circling music, along with the well-known circling dance, is one of the tools used by Sufis to reach a state of ego-less ecstasy, vanishing into Love.
Accordingly, in this design, the two circles spell out the two stanzas, and like the music and the dance, the design circles endlessly on the paper…

The design and script were entirely created by me. The original and work process can be seen on my website

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About Joumana Medlej

I am here to recall the magic in the world.
Creation is what I do, it is my work and my play. I create comics, children’s books, computer games, calligraphic pieces, computer icons, drawing tutorials, and so on. Visit my world on Majnouna.com.

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sufi, calligraphy, arabic, kufic, divine, spirituality

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