Islamic calligraphy is the artistic pattern of handwriting and calligraphy, based upon the first principle in the lands sharing a common Islamic cultural heritage. It includes Arabic Calligraphy, Ottoman, and Persian calligraphy . It is recognized in Arabic as chat Islamic (خط اسلامي), meaning Islamic line, figure , or structure. The growth of Islamic calligraphy is strongly linked to the Qur'an; chapters and extracts from the Qur'an are a common and almost universal text upon which Islamic calligraphy is based. Deep religious association with the Qur'an, as well as suspicion of figurative art as idolatrous, has led calligraphy to become one of the major figures of aesthetic expression in Islamic cultures. It has also been indicated that Islamic calligraphy was motivated less by iconophobia (since, in fact, images were by no means lacking in Islamic art) torn by the centrality of the notion of writing and written text in Islam. As Islamic ca...
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