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"Arab, Persian and Turkish literatures contain a large number of treatises or poems on the art of the book or calligraphy. Some of these volumes have a technical or historical nature, but above all these works are intended to testify to the exceptional worth of the book and writing."
— Jun 16, 2020 10:32AM
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"Each style possessed very specific differentiations defined by tradition. The first of these was the length of the letter alif defined by a system of point-measurement that determined the size of the other letters..."
— Jun 15, 2020 02:31AM
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The mission of the Aga Khan Museum, its collection, and its educational programmes is to become a medium of discourse, a vehicle of discovery, and “to promote intellectual openness and tolerance and to create increased cultural understanding."
— Jun 14, 2020 07:24AM
