Sandow Birk’s American Qur’an
These are just two of the images from LA-based Sandow Birk‘s effort to “hand-transcribe the entire Qur’an according to historic Islamic traditions and to illuminate the text with relevant scenes from contemporary American life.” Using a calligraphy style “loosely based on the Cholo graffiti associated with East Los Angeles,” Birk reinvisions the Qur’an,
as it was intended—as a universal message to humankind. If the Qur?
