Ibn Muqla

Ibn Muqla (Arabic ابن مقلة, DMG Ibn Muqla; * 885/886, † 20 July 940) was the most important Arab calligrapher. He held the office of Prime Minister under three caliphs, but this does not prevent him from being that he fell out of favor and he his right hand was cut off. Undeterred, the legend says, he was the write pipe to the stump bind and brought it again soon to full championship.

Ibn Muqla considered a great standardizer the Arabic script. He defined a canon of six cursive writing styles (al- aqlam as- Sitta ) and put him on points BASED as the basic unit system of measurement based by making the by the placement of the reed pen ( Qalam ) resulting diamond-shaped point to the still valid scale. As a work of art was just what was clear in this regard.

The development of today italic styles Nash, thuluth, Muhaqqaq, Riqaa, Rihani and Tauqi is Ibn Muqla attributed.