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it joins beauty and writing where image is absent
for letters, not faces
for its beauty, not cheapness
for sacred beauty, not ease
Kufic is the early manuscripts' style
Diwani is a later Ottoman style
Naskh is the everyday, not earliest
Ruqa is a later quick style
Naskh is for daily copying and books
Thuluth is for titles, not daily
Kufic is the early manuscripts'
Diwani is for decrees, not daily
Thuluth for monuments and Qur'ans
Naskh is for daily, not majestic
Ruqa is for speed, not majesty
Nasta'liq is for poetry, not monuments
Ibn Muqla systematised letter measure
Yaqut was a later calligrapher
al-Khwarizmi was of algebra, not script
al-Zahrawi was a physician
Yaqut was Abbasid Baghdad's greatest
Ibn Khaldun was a historian
al-Jahiz was a writer, not calligrapher
Ibn Battuta was a traveller
gold ornamenting the manuscript's margins
gold, not black ink
ornament, not printing
illumination, not binding
a reed pen cut at a slant
a reed pen, not a paint brush
a reed, not a feather
a reed pen, not modern
it peaked in Ottoman mosque panels
in mosques, not palaces
in Turkey, not China
in mosques, not caves
large calligraphy works hung in mosques
a panel, not a door
a panel, not a window
a panel, not a rug
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