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2. Arabic calligraphy - Wikipedia

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   Arabic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy based on the Arabic alphabet. It is known in Arabic as khatt (Arabic: خَطّ), derived from the words 'line', 'design', or 'construction'. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Kufic is the oldest form of the Arabic script. From an artistic point of view, Arabic calligraphy has been known and ...

3. Nastaliq - Wikipedia

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   The name Nastaliq "is a contraction of the Persian naskh-i ta'liq (Persian: نَسْخِ تَعلیق), meaning a hanging or suspended naskh. " [6] Virtually all Safavid authors (like Dust Muhammad or Qadi Ahmad) attributed the invention of nastaliq to Mir Ali Tabrizi, who lived at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century.

4. Arabic typography - Wikipedia

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   Arabic typography is the typography of letters, graphemes, characters or text in Arabic script, for example for writing Arabic, Persian, or Urdu. 16th century Arabic typography was a by-product of Latin typography with Syriac and Latin proportions and aesthetics. It lacked expertise in the three core aspects of Arabic writing: calligraphy ...

5. Diwani - Wikipedia

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   Diwani is a calligraphic variety of Arabic script, a cursive style developed during the reign of the early Ottoman Turks (16th century - early 17th century). It reached its height of popularity under Süleyman I the Magnificent (1520–1566). It was labeled the Diwani script because it was used in the Ottoman diwan and was one of the secrets of ...

6. Naskh (script) - Wikipedia

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   Ta'zieh. Wayang. Islam portal. v. t. e. Naskh[a] is a smaller, round script of Islamic calligraphy. Naskh is one of the first scripts of Islamic calligraphy to develop, commonly used in writing administrative documents and for transcribing books, including the Qur’an, because of its easy legibility. [1]

7. Ruqʿah script - Wikipedia

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   Ruqʿah is the most common type of handwriting in the Arabic script. It is known for its clipped letters composed of short, straight lines and simple curves, as well as its straight and even lines of text. It was probably derived from the Thuluth and Naskh styles. Unlike other types of calligraphy, ruqʿah is not considered as an art form ...

8. Maghrebi script - Wikipedia

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   Maghrebi script or Maghribi script (Arabic: الخط المغربي) refers to a loosely related family of Arabic scripts that developed in the Maghreb (North Africa), al-Andalus (Iberia), and Bilad as-Sudan (the West African Sahel). Maghrebi script is directly derived from the Kufic script, [1][2][3] and is traditionally written with a pointed ...

9. Tasmeem - Wikipedia

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   Tasmeem [1] was a set of Arabic enhancements for Adobe InDesign ME, [2] developed by WinSoft International and DecoType. Tasmeem allowed users to create typographically advanced text in Arabic in the Middle Eastern and North African versions of InDesign, turning it into a typesetting and design tool for Arabic.