For my calligram project I wanted to represent two fundamental concepts of Islam and Allah, tawhid (the “oneness or unicity of God”) and Allah being the “Light of the Heavens and Earth.” This concept of Tawhid is repeatedly represented and emphasized in the Quran, such as in Quran 4:171 which says, “So believe in God and His Messengers and say not ‘Three!’ Cease it is better for you. God is only one God.” We see this idea additionally in the Turkish poem Mevlid-i-Sherif which celebrates the birth of Muhammed. Throughout the poem Allah’s oneness or tawhid is repeatedly represented, even as early as before the introduction section where one line reads “He’s one!” (Chelebi 17). To incorporate tawhid in my calligram, I choose to make the center “Allah” in large arabic script, and then fill it in with multiple Allahs to show the singleness and oneness of God and how there is just one “Allah”. The next concept I wanted to represent was from Quran 24:35 where Allah is described as being “the Light of the Heavens and the Earth.” To represent this in my calligram, I drew Allah as being centered between the clouds of the heavens and earth below, and for the “Allah” written to compose the larger Allah, I used a gradient of color where the top Allahs were colored lighter colors like yellow and white/tan to represent the light from the Heavens, and as you move down the calligram the Allahs are colored blue and green to represent the light and color of the oceans and water (blue) and the grass and trees (green) on Earth.