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Yaqut al-Musta'simi
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Who is Yaqut al-Musta'simi?
Yaqut al-Musta'simi was a well-known calligrapher and the Turkish or Ethiopian secretary of the last Abbasid caliph. He codified six basic calligraphic styles of the Arabic script. Naskh script was said to have been revealed and taught to the scribe in a vision. He developed Yakuti, a handwriting named for him, described as a thuluth of "a particularly elegant and beautiful type." Supposedly he had copied the Qur'an more than a thousand times.
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