- ibn
Muqla (Arabic: أبو علي محمد بن علي ابن مقلة, romanized: Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn
Muqla; 885/6 – 20 July 940/1),
commonly known as Ibn
Muqla, was...
- eleventh,
twelfth and
thirteenth centuries, due to
their use by scribes. Ibn
Muqla is
credited with
standardizing the "Six Pens" of
Islamic calligraphy, also...
- Mu'nis and al-Muqtadir fell out in 927, Abu'l-Abbas and the
vizier Ibn
Muqla tried to
mediate between his
father and the
powerful commander-in-chief...
- (named
merely "Abu Ali") as Abu Ali
Muhammad ibn
Muqla, see p. 58. Van
Bladel 2017, p. 54. On Ibn
Muqla's possible motivations for
applying the
Quranic epithet...
- drunkenness.
Trying to
counteract the
influence of Mu'nis and of the
vizier Ibn
Muqla, who
controlled government, and re-****ert the
power of his office, al-Qahir...
-
Abbasid era to
denote a
specific writing style.
Master calligraphers like Ibn
Muqla and Ibn al-Bawwab
contributed to the
development of this and
other scripts...
- (named
merely "Abu Ali") as Abu Ali
Muhammad ibn
Muqla, see p. 58. van
Bladel 2017, p. 54. On Ibn
Muqla's possible motivations for
applying the
Quranic epithet...
-
refused to send his province's
revenue to Baghdad. The Caliph's vizier, Ibn
Muqla,
tried to
restore central control, but his
expedition against the Hamdanids...
- to read
since the
letters intertwine. Some
classical calligraphers: Ibn
Muqla (d. 939/940) Ibn al-Bawwab (d. 1022) Fakhr-un-Nisa (12th century) Shaykh...
-
traced the two
scripts as
coexisting long
before their codification by ibn
Muqla, as the two
served different purposes. Kufi was used
primarily in decoration...
