Yaqut al-Musta'simi

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Yaqut al-Musta'simi

Page of the Qur'an Dated 681 A. H./1282 A. D.Baghdad
Died 1298
Field Islamic calligraphy
Movement Naskh (script) Thuluth

Yaqut al-Musta'simi (also Yakut-i Musta'simi) (died 1298[1]) was a well-known calligrapher[2][3] and the Turkish or Ethiopian secretary of the last Abbasid caliph. He codified six basic calligraphic styles of the Arabic script.[4] Naskh script was said to have been revealed and taught to the scribe in a vision. He developed Yakuti, a handwriting named after him, described as a thuluth of "a particularly elegant and beautiful type."[1] Supposedly he had copied the Qur'an more than a thousand times.[5]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Efendi, Cafer; Howard Crane (1987). Risāle-i miʻmāriyye: an early-seventeenth-century Ottoman treatise on architecture: facsimile with translation and notes. Brill. p. 36. ISBN 978-90-04-07846-8. Retrieved 26 July 2010. 
  2. ↑ Dankoff, Robert (2004). An Ottoman mentality: the world of Evliya Çelebi. Brill. p. 42. ISBN 978-90-04-13715-8. 
  3. ↑ Çelebi, Evli̇ya; Robert Dankoff (2006). Evliya Çelebi in Bitlis: the relevant section of the Seyahatname. Brill. p. 285. ISBN 978-90-04-09242-6. Retrieved 26 July 2010. 
  4. ↑ Sözen, Metin; İlhan Akşit (1987). The evolution of Turkish art and architecture. Haşet Kitabevi. 
  5. ↑ Knappert, Jan (2005). Swahili culture, Book 2. E. Mellen Press. ISBN 978-0-7734-6109-3. 
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