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Islamiccalligraphyistheartisticpracticeofhandwritingandcalligraphy,baseduponthealphabetinthelandssharingacommonIslamicculturalheritage.ItincludesArabicCalligraphy,Ottoman,andPersiancalligraphy.ItisknowninArabicaskhattIslami(خطاسلامي),meaningIslamicline,design,orconstruction.

ThedevelopmentofIslamiccalligraphyisstronglytiedtotheQur'an;chaptersandexcerptsfromtheQur'anareacommonandalmostuniversaltextuponwhichIslamiccalligraphyisbased.However,Islamiccalligraphyisnotlimitedtostrictlyreligioussubjects,objects,orspaces.LikeallIslamicart,itencompassesadiversearrayofworkscreatedinawidevarietyofcontexts.TheprevalenceofcalligraphyinIslamicartisnotdirectlyrelatedtoitsnon-figuraltradition;rather,itreflectsthecentralityofthenotionofwritingandwrittentextinIslam.Itisnoteworthy,forinstance,thattheProphetMuhammadisrelatedtohavesaid:"ThefirstthingGodcreatedwasthepen."

Islamiccalligraphydevelopedfromtwomajorstyles:KuficandNaskh.Thereareseveralvariationsofeach,aswellasregionallyspecificstyles.Islamiccalligraphyhasalsobeenincorporatedintomodernartbeginningwiththepost-colonialperiodintheMiddleEast,aswellasthemorerecentstyleofcalligraffiti.
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