Naskh (نسخ, also known as Naskhi or by its Turkish name Nesih) is a specific calligraphic style for writing in the Arabic alphabet. It is the style most commonly used for printing Arabic, and usually the first to be taught to children. Calligraphy (from Greek καλλι calli beauty + γραφος graphos writing) is the art of decorative writing. ... Writing is a process which may refer to two activities: the inscribing characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other lingual constructs that represent language and record information, or the creation of information to be conveyed through written language. ... The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing the Arabic language. ... Arabic (العربية) is a Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ...
A sample written in Naskh style
This type of script was derived from Thuluth by introducing a number of modifications resulting in smaller size and greater delicacy. It is written using a small, very fine pen known as a cava pen, which makes the script eminently suitable for use in book production. Naskhi was used in copying Qur'ans, Delails, En-ams and Hadiths. It was also used in commentaries on the Qur'an (Tefsir) and in collections of poetry (Divan). It was a very widely used form of script. Image:Naskh. ... Thuluth (Arabic: one-third) is a script variety of Arabic calligraphy, which made its first appearance in the fourth century of the Hegira (11th century AD). ... The Quran (Arabic al-qurʾān أَلْقُرآن; its literal meaning is the recitation and is often called Al Quran Al Karim: The Noble Quran, also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. ... Hadith (الحديث, Arabic pl. ... Bust of Homer, one of the earliest European poets, in the British Museum Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... This article should be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ...
The early Yâkût period was supplanted in the late 1400's by a new style pioneered by Seyh Hamdullah (1429-1520) which became the basis for Ottoman Calligraphy.
Focusing on the nesih version of the script, which became the standard for copying the Qur'an (See Arabic Calligraphy).
The late calligraphic style of the Ottomans was created by Mustafa Râkim (1757-1826) as an extension and reform of Osman's style, and placing greater emphasis on technical perfection which broadened the calligraphic art to encompass the sülüs script as well as the nesih script which had been the dominant standard script.
The cursive form of sls or cel sls in which the words or groups of letters are joined is known as mselsel and the device whereby a word or group of words are written twice as a symmetrical mirror image interlocking down the centre is known as msenn.
Although the characters of nesih are curved, they must invariably be arranged in lines, so are not appropriate for calligraphic compositions.
Nesih has most often been used for writing long texts, above all the Koran, and the first typeface used by Turkish printers was nesih.
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