Art For The Love Of Muhammad (PBUH) Traditional Contest, 2025.

The Islamic Arts Society announced the winners of the 5th “Art for The Love of Prophet Muhammed” (PBUH) contest. A first of its kind, the competition generated worldwide attention. A panel of judges selected the winners based upon (1) Relevance to the theme of the competition (2) Creativity and originality of the idea (3) Effective use of standard elements of art (4) Artistic skill in the use of materials, colors (5) Professional and aesthetic quality, neatness, presentation (6) Authenticity and credibility of work.
This year the competition was divided into Contemporary and Traditional Islamic art. A panel of four judges from the Islamic Arts Society reviewed more than 250 submissions from 21 countries and five continents to select the top ten entries from each category. Our panel of judges was supervised by Mr. Amjad Alvi from Pakistan and Mr. Nihad Dukhan from the USA. Amjad Alvi is an acclaimed artist from Pakistan. He has taught thousands of students, and his RUclips channel has more than half a million subscribers. He is nationally and Internationally recognized as a calligrapher and artist and is an expert in pouring, Mandala, drawing, sketching, illumination, design, doodling, and tezhip. Nihad Dukhan is a professor of engineering at Michigan. He is a Master-Arabic-Islamic calligrapher with Ijaza in Thuluth & Naskh from Hasan Çelebi and Ijaza in Taliq by Mohamed Zakariya in the USA.
We present the competition winners here. Please join us in congratulating the winners of our 2025 competition.