ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has gifted a contemporary Islamic sculpture by renowned artist Amin Gulgee to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, its first work to be displayed in the prestigious Centre’s permanent collection, the press information department said on Thursday.
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OCIS is among the world’s leading institutions for the multidisciplinary study of Islamic civilizations, culture and contemporary Muslim societies. The Centre’s collections and exhibitions attract scholars, diplomats and visitors from across the Muslim world, making Pakistan’s formal artistic presence symbolically and academically important.
Gulgee’s sculptural work, built around the fifth verse of Surah Al-Alaq and rendered in deconstructed Naskh calligraphy, draws on one of the earliest Qur’anic revelations — a passage associated with the primacy of knowledge in Islamic tradition — and uses Naskh, the classical script that became the standard for Qur’anic manuscripts across the Muslim world.
The combination places a foundational Islamic theme within a contemporary artistic form that has gained international recognition.
