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This is a "purely spiritual script" - it's enough just to look at it, but not all types of Arabic calligraphy are religious. New styles of proportional cursive scripts, like naksh and thuluth ...
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Lines of legacy
Ameer, a Saudi calligrapher, is deeply passionate about the art of Arabic calligraphy. In this series, he begins by walking us through the history and evolution of the script. “It is considered one of ...
“The original Arabic script did not know pointing and Diacritics until decades after the passing of the prophet Mohammad.” “It’s an easy technique, even for handwriting,” Hamameh continued.
Southwest Script is one of just a handful of ancient languages about which little is known, according to Swiggers. ... (Almodovar is a corruption of the Arabic word al-mudura, ...
The origins of communication are explored in a landmark compilation that charts the disappearance of writing systems from ancient cuneiform to Turkish Arabic script, explains Andrew Robinson.
Egyptian hieroglyphs were fully unlocked 200 years ago, when the Rosetta Stone was deciphered. Yet long before that, Arabic scholars had made their own discoveries with these ancient scripts ...
An inscription on the glass inset reads either “for Allah” or “to Allah” in an ancient Arabic script, the researchers report February 23 in Scanning.. Scandinavians traded for fancy glass ...