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Ibn Muqlah

Ibn Muqlah transformed scribal craft by turning script into a disciplined proportional art.

BORN 886 CE · Baghdad, IraqDIED 940 CE · Baghdad, IraqERA Abbasid
NOTABLE CONTRIBUTION

Standardized proportional principles that shaped classical Arabic calligraphy.

THE RECORD
  • He served as an Abbasid vizier while developing calligraphic theory.
  • His system related letter forms to measured proportions.
  • Later calligraphers refined the tradition he helped formalize.
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