These are just two of the images from LA-based Sandow Birk‘s effort to “hand-transcribe the entire Qur’an according to historic Islamic traditions and to illuminate the text with relevant scenes from contemporary American life.”  Using a calligraphy style “loosely based on the Cholo graffiti associated with East Los Angeles,” Birk reinvisions the Qur’an,

as it was intended—as a universal message to humankind.  If the Qur?