{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] Islamic Calligraphy [continued]}[21st April 1991]

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[A continuation of the article begun in the last previous ts journal entry, describing Kufic script variations in detail, is not included here; it includes the sentence: 'The sacred import of the text is described in deliberate, abstract terms'.**]

*[It seems that at some stage the practice developed of giving Kufic script human heads!]

**– ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Arts 3:] (446-)447

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