![]() ![]() The stylistic marks have their own rules regarding placement and grouping which allow for great creativity as to shape and orientation. The rules governing the former are similar to the rules for any Arabic script. The script is used in the Flag of Saudi Arabia where its text, Shahada al Tawhid, is written in Thuluth.Īn important aspect of Thuluth script is the use of harakat ( "hareke" in Turkish) to represent vowel sounds and of certain other stylistic marks to beautify the script. After the 15th century Naskh came to be used exclusively. Later copies were written in a combination of Thuluth and either Naskh or Muhaqqaq. Some of the oldest copies of the Qur'an were written in Thuluth. Thuluth was used to write the headings of surahs, Qur'anic chapters. The best known artist to write the Thuluth script at its zenith is said to be Mustafa Râkım Efendi (1757–1826), a painter who set a standard in Ottoman calligraphy which many believe has not been surpassed to this day. ![]() Finally, in the late 19th century, Mehmed Şevkî Efendi gave the script the distinctive shape it has today.The second revolution resulted from the work of the Ottoman calligrapher Hâfız Osman in the 17th century.The first revolution occurred in the 15th century and was initiated by the master calligrapher Sheikh Hamdullah.The greatest contributions to the evolution of the Thuluth script occurred in the Ottoman Empire in three successive steps that Ottoman art historians call "calligraphical revolutions": Various calligraphic styles evolved from Thuluth through slight changes of form. It is an elegant, cursive script, used in medieval times on mosque decorations. An alternative theory to the meaning is that the smallest width of the letter is one third of the widest part. In Thuluth, one-third of each letter slopes, from which the name (meaning "a third" in Arabic) comes. ![]() The straight angular forms of Kufic were replaced in the new script by curved and oblique lines. Thuluth ( Arabic: ثُلُث, Ṯuluṯ or Arabic: خَطُّ الثُّلُثِ, Ḵaṭṭ-uṯ-Ṯuluṯ Persian: ثلث, Sols Turkish: Sülüs, from thuluth "one-third") is an Arabic script variety of Islamic calligraphy. The later inscription attributed this work to Alaeddin Tabrizi. Script variety of Arabic calligraphy Calligraphic panel with prayer in thuluth, which reads: the grasping of God brings the knowledge of His comfort. ![]()
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