Naskh is a smaller, round script of Islamic calligraphy . Naskh is one of the first scripts of Islamic calligraphy to develop, commonly used in writing administrative documents and for transcribing books, including the Qur’an , because of its easy legibility.
10-606: [REDACTED] Look up naskh in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Naskh may refer to: Naskh (script) , a type of script for the Arabic language Naskh (tafsir) , an exegetical theory in Islamic law Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Naskh . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
20-732: A balance that is not easily achieved." The Amiri project was supported by Google Web Fonts , TeX Users Group , and donations from users. Amiri was released under the SIL Open Font License . The typeface itself has four styles: regular, bold, slanted, bold slanted, and two companions for Quranic typesetting: Amiri Quran and Amiri Quran Colored. All of which are available in TrueType outlines and OpenType format. The Amiri font makes extensive use of OpenType features to produce automatic positioning and substitutions, including wide varieties of contextual forms, ligatures and kerning to
30-580: Is a naskh typeface for Arabic script designed by Khaled Hosny. The beta was released in December 2011. As of October 22, 2019, it is hosted on 67,000 websites, and is served by the Google Fonts API approximately 74.8 million times per week. Amiri is a revival of a naskh typeface pioneered by the Bulaq Press ( مطبعة بولاق ), also called al-Mataabi' al-Amiriya ( المطابع الأميرية ), in 1905. It
40-456: Is commonly believed to predate naskh, but historians have traced the two scripts as coexisting long before their codification by ibn Muqla, as the two served different purposes. Kufi was used primarily in decoration, while Naskh served for everyday scribal use. , It is believed that Ibn Muqla developed the Naskh script, but did not invent it The alif is written as a straight stroke, bending to
50-617: The "noblest and true writing style". The Naskh style of writing can be found as early as within the first century of the Islamic calendar . Round scripts became the most popular in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries, due to their use by scribes. Ibn Muqla is credited with standardizing the "Six Pens" of Islamic calligraphy, also including thuluth , tawqi’ , riqaaʿ , muhaqqaq , and rayhani . These are known as "the proportioned scripts" ( al-khatt al-mansub ) or "the six scripts" ( al-aqlam al-sitta ). Kufic
60-565: The development of decorative elements into more supple, rounded designs, away from the common use of squared kufic in decoration. Naskh's use in architecture first began in the tenth century and had been adopted in many Muslim countries by the eleventh century. More recently, fonts, such as the Bulaq Press -inspired Amiri typeface or Monotype Imaging 's Bustani font, have created user-friendly digital manifestations of naskh for use in graphic design and digital typography, mixed with Ruqʿah . Amiri (typeface) Amiri ( Arabic : أميري )
70-441: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naskh&oldid=933010715 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Naskh (script) In his 1617 Grammatica Arabica , Thomas van Erpe defined naskhī characters as
80-420: The lower left. Naskh differentiates various sounds through the use of diacritical points, in the form of 1–3 dots above or below the letter, which makes the script more easily legible. Naskh uses a horizontal base line; in situations where one character starts within the tail of the preceding letter, the base line is broken and raised. In sixteenth-century Constantinople , Şeyh Hamdullah (1429–1520) redesigned
90-430: The structure of naskh, along with the other "Six Pens", in order to make the script appear more precise and less heavy. The script is what is normally used electronically and as the default typeface. Examples on typefaces in naskh on Windows (W), iOS (M), Linux (L), and Google Fonts (G): Naskh was historically used heavily in the transcription of books and in administrative courtly documents. Naskh allowed for
100-569: Was famously used to print the Cairo edition , one of the first typeset -printed editions of the Quran to be certified by an Islamic authority— Al-Azhar —in 1924. On the 1905 typeface and of challenges of digitizing Arabic script , Dr. Hosny wrote: "One of the most novel features of the Bulaq typeface is maintaining the aesthetics of Naskh calligraphy while meeting the requirements (and limitations) of typesetting,
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