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We'll build you a handmade custom "Allah" calligraphy wall scroll if you wish!
We've noticed you are searching for "allah". If you are interested, we can have your favorite verse from the Qur'an translated into Chinese and written on a wall scroll for you. You can post your request on our forum siting the verse or verses you want.
Note: Certain verses of the Qur'an are considered "unsuitable for the people of China" by the Chinese government. So, while we don't like to be a part of censorship, we don't want our calligraphers to go to jail over a $50 Qur'an Chinese calligraphy wall scroll. But hopefully we can fulfill your request (9 out of 10 times we can).
Coming soon, we will bring you truly Muslim calligraphy from the region known as Xinjiang in China. It is a place were virtually everyone is a Chinese citizen, but everyone is also a Muslim. I traveled over 2000 miles to the most remote areas of China, near the borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan to find a Muslim calligrapher. Please post a request on our forum if you would like a sneak preview. I am still working on translations before these wall scrolls find their way to our website.
Our apologies to our Muslim friends, as we have not yet compiled a large list of Islamic terms - but you can help by posting your requests and thoughts on our forum.
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Mandarin: zhēn zhǔ
This is how Chinese Muslims refer to God (it literally means "True Master"). Oddly, in China, two different names for God have emerged. Even though Muslims, Christians, and Jews all worship the same God of Abraham.
In Arabic, the word Allah is just the Arabic way to say God. Arab Christians pray to Allah, just like Arab Muslims. Somehow in China the title of God diverged.
If you are curious, there are millions of Muslims throughout China, but especially in the northwest portion of China known as Xinjiang. Here you will find descendants of Turkmen, Persian, Arab, and other ethnicities. Some are mixed with Han-Chinese blood; others appear to be pure Turkmen. Many have fair complexions, green eyes, and light hair, but all are citizens of China. A visit to Xinjiang will shift your paradigm and blow away all of your stereotypes about what it means to be Chinese.
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Mandarin: wú yī shì zhǔ wéi yǒu ān lā mù hǎn mò dé shì ān lā de chāi shǐ
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above are read
vertically, starting
from the right
This is one of the key creeds of Islam.
While perhaps more often seen in Arabic as
there are many native Chinese Muslims (especially the Hui ethnicity) that do not speak Arabic.
Instead, they use this Chinese phrase to express this idea or statement of faith.
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Wall scroll artwork shown on this page is priced as follows:
2-3 characters $39.88 each
11 or more characters $69.88 each
After you select your calligraphy, our website will take you through the process of customizing your artwork.
Options for other mounting such as portraits are available for $13 less.
We also offer the services of a famous master calligrapher for a $40 fee on any scroll if you are looking for investment-quality calligraphy.
If you chose our famous master-calligrapher, you also get more choices for silk and paper colors and the option for larger artwork.
All of our calligraphy is completely done by hand in the ancient way.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to our art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Therefore, allow at least 3 weeks for delivery from the time you place your order.
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
Prices for
custom wall scrolls
shown on this page:
2-3 Characters:
USD $39.88
GBP £24.20
EUR €26.92
CAD $42.74
AUS $43.87
More than 10 Characters:
USD $69.88
GBP £42.41
EUR €47.17
CAD $74.88
AUS $76.88
Customizations that you select may raise or lower the price.
The scroll that I am holding in this picture is a "regular size"
4-character wall scroll.
As you can see, it is a great size to hang on your wall.
(We also offer custom wall scrolls in larger sizes)
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
The following table is only helpful for those studying Chinese (or Japanese), and perhaps helps search engines to find this page when someone enters Romanized Chinese or Japanese
| Title | Characters Simplified Traditional |
Various forms of Hanyu-Pinyin (Romanized Chinese) | ||||
| Allah / God of Islam | 真主 真主 | zhēn zhǔ zhen zhu | zhen1 zhu3 zhenzhu | |||
| There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His Messenger. | 无一是主惟有安拉穆罕默德是安拉的差使 無一是主惟有安拉穆罕默德是安拉的差使 | wú yī shì zhǔ wéi yǒu ān lā mù hǎn mò dé shì ān lā de chāi shǐ wu yi shi zhu wei you an la mu han mo de shi an la de chai shi | wu2 yi1 shi4 zhu3 wei2 you3 an1 la1 mu4 han3 mo4 de2 shi4 an1 la1 de chai1 shi3 | |||
| If you have not set up your computer to display Chinese, the characters in this table probably look like empty boxes or random text garbage.
This is why we spent hundreds of hours making images so that you could view the characters in the "allah" listings above. If you want your Windows computer to be able to display Chinese characters you can either head to your Regional and Language options in your Win XP control panel, select the [Languages] tab and click on [Install files for East Asian Languages]. This task will ask for your Win XP CD to complete in most cases. If you don't have your Windows XP CD, or are running Windows 98, you can also download/run the simplified Chinese font package installer from Microsoft which works independently with Win 98, ME, 2000, and XP. It's a 2.5MB download, so if you are on dial up, start the download and go make a sandwich. | ||||||
Some people may refer to this entry as Allah Kanji, Allah Characters, Allah in Chinese Writing, Allah in Japanese Writing, Allah in Asian Writing, Allah Ideograms, Chinese Allah symbols, Allah Hieroglyphics, Allah Glyphs, Allah in Chinese Letters, Allah Hanzi, Allah in Japanese Kanji, Allah Pictograms, Allah in the Chinese Written-Language, or Allah in the Japanese Written-Language.
All custom calligraphy items are made-to-order in our little Beijing artwork-mounting workshop.
Please note: Rush service can be as fast as two weeks, but regular service is over a month for delivery.
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