{
 "id": "concept/islamic-calligraphy",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "islamic-calligraphy",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الخط الإسلامي",
  "en": "Islamic calligraphy"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "فن كتابة الحرف العربي وتشكيله جمالياً؛ أشرف الفنون الإسلامية لارتباطه بكتابة القرآن، وتنوعت خطوطه بين الكوفي والنسخ والثلث والديواني.",
  "en": "The art of beautiful Arabic script; the noblest Islamic art for its link to writing the Qur'an, with styles from Kufic to Naskh, Thuluth and Diwani."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "objects"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "arts-of-the-book",
  "scripture-and-its-sciences"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "art_form",
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata"
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q656831"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), arts lane; via Wikidata, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "فن كتابة الحرف العربي وتشكيله جمالياً؛ أشرف الفنون الإسلامية لارتباطه بكتابة القرآن، وتنوعت خطوطه بين الكوفي والنسخ والثلث والديواني. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/islamic-calligraphy",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The art of writing and shaping the Arabic letter beautifully. It is the most honoured of the Islamic arts because of its link to the writing of the Qur'an, and its scripts varied among kufic, naskh, thuluth and diwani. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/islamic-calligraphy",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "object/al-mushaf-al-azraq",
  "concept/abjad-kings-etymology",
  "concept/al-ahruf-al-sabaa",
  "concept/al-hadith-al-nabawi",
  "concept/al-shamail-al-muhammadiyya",
  "concept/al-sira-al-nabawiyya",
  "concept/amr-nahy",
  "concept/arabesque"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}