Islamic calligraphy
Mohamed Zakariya was born in 1942 in Ventura, California. Later he moved to Los Angeles with his family. Zakariya saw Islamic calligraphy for the first time in the window of an Armenian carpet store in Los Angeles. Zakariya traveled to Morocco in his late teens where he became fascinated with Islam and Islamic Calligraphy. After returning from his trip to the United States he converted to Islam.