Styles of Islamic calligraphy
Have you been looking for Islamic art for sale? Ahead of visiting a store to buy Islamic art for home, perhaps you can do well to read about the different style of Arabic or Islamic calligraphy, the outstanding feature of Islamic art. In Islamic calligraphy, verses from the Quran are written in different fonts or writing styles, which developed over a period of time at different places. Some popular ones are explained below.Kufic: Believed to be among the earliest fonts, Kufic was developed in Kufa, Iraq, around the seventh century and is said to be the first writing style in which the Quran was transcribed. It is said that the Arabic script at that point of time had no diacritical marks or symbols to denote vowels. In Kufic, letters have horizontal strokes that are either too long...