Arabic Calligraphy: Naskh Script for Beginners
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Every purchase supports the British Museum Naskh is one of the six major cursive Arabic scripts Its origins can be traced back to the late 8th century AD and it is still in use today, over 1300 years later In its earliest form Naskh was a utilitarian script, mainly used for ordinary correspondence on papyrus, but during the 10th and 11th centuries it was completely transformed by the elegant refinements of the great Abbasid calligraphers The Ottoman Turks also considered Naskh the script most suited for copying the Quran
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Every purchase supports the British Museum Naskh is one of the six major cursive Arabic scripts Its origins can be traced back to the late 8th century AD and it is still in use today, over 1300 years later In its earliest form Naskh was a utilitarian script, mainly used for ordinary correspondence on papyrus, but during the 10th and 11th centuries it was completely transformed by the elegant refinements of the great Abbasid calligraphers The Ottoman Turks also considered Naskh the script most suited for copying the Quran
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