Why does Urdu calligraphy look so different from Arabic calligraphy?
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There is a theory that as the Arabic script spread far and wide, it got under the influence of various other scripts, which caused the development of different local styles: Kufi was inspired by the Syriac script, Naskh by the Nabataean, Taliq and Shekasteh by Avestan and Pahlavi, Diwani by Uyghur, and...
read more There is a theory that as the Arabic script spread far and wide, it got under the influence of various other scripts, which caused the development of different local styles: Kufi was inspired by the Syriac script, Naskh by the Nabataean, Taliq and Shekasteh by Avestan and Pahlavi, Diwani by Uyghur, and apparently some read less
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There is a theory that as the Arabic script spread far and wide, it got under the influence of various other scripts, which caused the development of different local styles
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