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.
15-569: (Redirected from Naskhi ) [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
30-507: A mission to Milan to learn the craft of printing and type-founding, as well as purchase printing presses. The Amiri Press was established in 1820 and opened officially in the Bulaq neighborhood of Cairo in 1821. It published its first book in 1822: an Arabic–Italian dictionary prepared by the Syrian priest Anton Zakhūr Rafa'il . In the beginning, the press published military books for
45-403: A run as small as 100 copies, it was designed for no other purpose than to keep the vali himself and his chief aides informed of state affairs. Handwritten at first, it was subsequently printed lithographically , appearing irregularly for a while before it became a weekly and later a daily publication. The Jurnal was succeeded by Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya , first published December 3, 1828, with
60-560: A run of about 600 copies. It was not sold to the public, but rather printed irregularly and distributed to a chosen state elite. In the Tanzimat period (1839–1876), the Bulaq Press helped circulate the "unprecedented" volume of Islamic literature that was being translated into Ottoman Turkish . In October 1862, Muhammad Sa'id Pasha gave the press to Abdurrahman Bik Rushdi. It was then purchased by Isma'il Pasha who added it to
75-460: 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
90-594: The Bulaq Press ( مطبعة بولاق ) due to its original location in Bulaq ) is a printing press , and one of the main agencies with which Muhammad Ali Pasha modernized Egypt . The Amiri Press had a profound effect on Egyptian literature and intellectual life in the country and in the greater region, as scientific works in European languages were translated into Arabic. The process began in 1815 when Muhammad Ali Pasha , four years into his reign over Egypt, sent
105-464: The Egyptian army , but it soon developed and started to print literary books, science books, and textbooks. It was also Cairo's most active and important Turkish-language press. Jurnal al-Khidiw , first published 1821–1822, was the first printed Arabic periodical: The Jurnal , a bilingual Turkish -Arabic bulletin, was little more than a domestic circular intended for official consumption. With
120-622: 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
135-652: The Da'ira Sunnia (الدائرة السنية), or the royal possessions. Publications in this time included a Quran with commentary by Al-Zamakhshari . The Amiri Press returned to the possession of the state in 1880, during the reign of Tewfik Pasha . In 1905, the Amiri Press developed a new naskh -based typeface for body text. It served as the primary inspiration for the Amiri font , a 2011 naskh script designed by Dr. Khaled Hosny for typesetting body text . In 1924 it published
150-659: The Ministry of Trade and Industry's administrator at the time, Aziz Sedky – was held on September 1, 1956. The ministry later decided to build a new 35,000 m building for the Amiria Press Authority and equip it with state-of-the-art printing technology to spread its messages. The Amiria Press Authority officially began operations at its new location on July 28, 1973 during the Sadat administration under Ibrahim Salem Muhammadin, Minister of Trade and Industry at
165-659: 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 Press The Amiri Press or Amiriya Press ( Arabic : المطبعة الأميرية, المطابع الأميرية ) ( Al-Matba'a al-Amiriya ) (also known as
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#1732772858644180-572: The iconic 1342 Cairo text , or King Fu'ad Quran – the first printed edition of the Quran to be accepted by an Islamic authority, Al-Azhar Mosque . A large number of pre-1924 Qurans were destroyed by dumping them in the Nile . On August 13, 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser passed Law 312 of 1956 ordering the establishment of the Amiria Press Authority under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Trade & Industry. The first meeting of its administration – headed by
195-420: 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
210-430: 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
225-523: The title Naskh . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change 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
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