Ibn Muqla

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Papyrus fragment from the time of Ibn Muqla

Ibn Muqla ( Arabic ابن مقلة, DMG Ibn Muqla ; * 885 / 886 ; † July 20, 940 ) was the most important Persian calligrapher at the Abbasid court. He held the office of prime minister under three caliphs , but this did not prevent him from falling out of favor and having his right hand cut off. Undeterred, so the legend says, he had the pen tied to the stump of his arm and soon brought it back to full mastery.

Ibn Muqla is considered to be a great standardizer of the Arabic script . He defined a canon of six cursive writing styles ( al-aqlam as-Sitta ) and put him on points BASED as the fundamental group unit of measurement basis by the by the placement of the reed pen ( Qalam made arising) diamond-shaped point to the still valid scale. A work of art was only considered to be that which was flawless in this respect.

The development of the italic styles Naschī , Thuluth , Muhaqqaq , Reqa , Rihani and Tauqi are ascribed to Ibn Muqla.

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