- Kufic
- the square script — the oldest of the mushaf scripts
- Naskh
- the copyists' rounded script, which they used for the books' everyday writing
- Thuluth
- the royal script that adorned the domes and the great signs
- Ibn Muqla
- he who regularised naskh in the Baghdad of his era
- Yaqut al-Musta'simi
- the master of all calligraphers in the Mongols' era and after
- the calligrapher
- the pen-holder who earns his living by his beautiful art
- the mushaf
- the mushaf written in the finest and most perfect scripts
- the panel
- the panel hung in houses and gatherings for beauty and blessing
- Diwani
- the royal script belonging to the Ottoman chanceries
- illumination
- the art of gilding texts with beautiful coloured floral ornament
- the ink
- the black ink made from soot and gum arabic together
- the reed pen
- the pen cut and sharpened from a reed of bamboo
