The modern art movement in the Arab world, called Hurufiyya Arabiyya, which formulated around the 1940s, based its artistic activity on the traditional role of the Word, the text of the Koran, and the Islamic oral traditions. Through the use of the Arabic alphabet, artists explored the boundaries between readability and abstraction, tradition and modern, the letter and the sign. Their art referred to the Islamic history, identity, politics and religion. In our meetings, we will examine the connection between the appearance of the Islamic political movements in the Arabic world, which called for independence from the colonial forces, and the formation and thrive of the artistic movement Hurufiyya Arabiyya, as well as the link between its artistic activity and the Islamic artistic heritage on the one hand, and the construction of the modern national Arabic (and Islamic) identity on the other.