Editing Arabic calligraphy (section)

== Legacy ==

=== Type design and type setting ===
Arabic calligraphy serves as a major source of inspiration for [[Arabic typography|Arabic type design]]. For example, the [[Amiri (typeface)|Amiri]] typeface is inspired by the [[Naskh (script)|Naskh]] script used at the [[Amiri Press]] in Cairo.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hosny|first=Khaled|date=2012|title=The Amiri typeface|url=https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb33-1/tb103hosny.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb33-1/tb103hosny.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|journal=TUGboat|volume=33|pages=12}}</ref>

The shift from Arabic calligraphy to Arabic [[typeface]]s presents technical challenges, as Arabic is essentially a cursive script with contextual shapes.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}
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===Islamic world and civilization===
Credited to be the one that catalyzed the growth of Arabic calligraphy; with the earliest works of Arabic calligraphy being featured in copies of the [[Quran]] dating back to the first century of [[Islam|Islam's]] revelation such as [[Birmingham Quran manuscript|Birmingham Quran Manuscript]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-07-21 |title='Oldest' Koran fragments found in Birmingham University |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-33436021 |access-date=2024-09-21 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> [[Codex Parisino-petropolitanus|Codex Parisino-Petropolitanus]]<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8415207g/ |title=Coran. |language=EN}}</ref> and several others.

Arabic calligraphy can be on occasion be found in places of worship for Muslim's known as [[Mosque]]s with engravings of [[Āyah|Quranic verses / Ayah]] present on parts of the architecture itself. <ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-04-14 |title=The Importance of Calligraphy in Islamic Art- Calligraphy |url=https://www.arabic-calligraphy.com/the-importance-of-calligraphy-in-islamic-art/ |access-date=2024-10-04 |language=en-US}}</ref>

The most widely recognized example of Arabic Calligraphy on a place of Islamic worship is the Kaaba present in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ankit |title=Home - Kabaa Kiswah |url=https://kabaakiswah.com/ |access-date=2024-10-04 |language=en-CA}}</ref>

Arabic calligraphy specializes into the term ''[[Islamic calligraphy]]'' when it is associated with the Islamic world.

=== Art ===
[[EL Seed]], a French-Tunisian [[graffiti]] artist, makes use of Arabic calligraphy in his various art projects, in a style called ''[[calligraffiti]]''.<ref>{{Citation|last=PopTech|title=eL Seed: The Art of Calligraffiti|date=2011|url=http://archive.org/details/eLSeed-2011|access-date=2020-02-24}}</ref>

The [[Hurufiyya movement|''Hurufiyya'']] ({{Lang|ar|الحروفية}} ''letters'') movement, since its beginnings in the early 20th century, uses the artistic manipulation of Arabic calligraphy and typography in abstraction.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thehoya.com/nyu-grey-art-gallery-spotlights-pioneers-of-arab-art/|title=NYU Grey Art Gallery Spotlights Pioneers of Arab Art|date=2020-02-07|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-25|archive-date=2022-10-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006160156/https://thehoya.com/nyu-grey-art-gallery-spotlights-pioneers-of-arab-art/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

''Taking Shape: Abstraction From the Arab World, 1950s-1980s'', a 2020 installation at New York University's [[Grey Art Gallery]], explored how Arabic calligraphy, with its ancient presence in visual art, influenced [[abstract art]] in the [[Arab world]].<ref name="Heinrich-2020">{{Cite news|last=Heinrich|first=Will|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/arts/design/Arab-Abstraction-grey-art-gallery.html|title=How the Arabic Alphabet Inspired Abstract Art|date=2020-02-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-02-24|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> For [[Madiha Omar]], the Arabic alphabet was a means of expressing a secular identity and appropriating [[Western painting]], while [[Omar El-Nagdi]] explored the inherent divinity of Arabic calligraphy.<ref name="Heinrich-2020" />