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Muhaqqaq
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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The earliest reference to <i>muḥaqqaq</i> writing is found in the <i><a href="/facts/Kitab_al-Fihrist/BNILWphP">Kitab al-Fihrist</a></i> by <a href="/facts/Ibn_al-Nadim/x1tHR4u8">Ibn al-Nadim</a>, and the term was probably in use since the beginning of the <a href="/facts/Abbasid/mPeLAbXt">Abbasid</a> era to denote a specific writing style.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> Master calligraphers like <a href="/facts/Ibn_Muqla/IzCFUxHN">Ibn Muqla</a> and <a href="/facts/Ibn_al-Bawwab/vTFPhBHG">Ibn al-Bawwab</a> contributed to the development of this and other scripts, and defined its rules and standards within Islamic calligraphy.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="gallery">Gallery</h2> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Arabic_calligraphy/bhu5sMyt">Arabic calligraphy</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Islamic_calligraphy/GacvVLlz">Islamic calligraphy</a></li></ul> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <ul><li>Nassar Mansour (author), Mark Allen (ed.): <i>Sacred Script: Muhaqqaq in Islamic Calligraphy</i>, I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, New York 2011, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-84885-439-0</li></ul> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Muhaqqaq style. <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>John F. A. Sawyer, J. M. Y. Simpson, R. E. Asher (eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion, Elsevier, New York 2001, ISBN 0-08-043167-4, p. 253. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Mansour, 139–140. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Mansour, 30. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Mansour, 278 <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Mansour, 187. <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Mansour, 91. <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Mansour, 20. <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>