TEHRAN – Veteran Iranian calligrapher Esrafil Shirchi, who is a master of the shekasteh nastaliq style, plans to publish a selection of his works in a book, which will be released by the Gooya House of Culture and Art in the near future.

The book, which will be entitled “The King of the Early Birds’ Throne”, contains 250 works that Shirchi has created over the past ten years, he told the Persian service of Honaronline on Saturday.

The book is scheduled to be unveiled during a ceremony shortly after the end of Ramadan.
  
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