Uthman Taha

Uthman ibn Abduh ibn Husayn ibn Taha al-Halyabi is a Kazakh-Syrian-Saudi calligrapher of the Quran in the Arabic language renowned for hand-writing Mushaf al-Madinah issued by the King [Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'an].
He was born in 1934 in Sandi, Çobanbey a rural area of Aleppo Governorate, Syria. Gaining a BA in Shari’ah from the University of Damascus, he also studied Arabic language, Islamic decoration arts, and painting. He gained certification in calligraphy from Hamid al-Amidi, the so-called master of calligraphers in the Islamic world. He was also taught calligraphy by Muhammad Ali al-Mawlawi, Ibrahim al-Rifa’i, Muhammad Badawi al-Derani and Hashim al-Baghdadi.
He wrote his first Mushaf in 1970. In 1988 he travelled to Saudi Arabia and was assigned a handwriter and calligrapher in the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'an in Madina. The same year he was made a member of the international jury for the Arabic [Calligraphy Award] which is held in Istanbul once every three years.
During the first 18 years of his life at the King Fahd Complex, Uthman hand-wrote four Mus'haf, more than 200 million copies of which were distributed worldwide., he has hand-written 12 Maṣāḥif. A Muṣḥaf usually requires more than 3 years in writing and an additional year for proof-reading and reviewing.
His beautiful, clear, easy-to-read style used in the Madina Muṣḥaf is also used in a commercial copy known as Mushaf al-Tajweed.
He was granted Saudi citizenship in December 2021.