Yaqut al-Musta'simi

Yaqut al-Musta'simi
Page of the Qur'an Dated 681 A. H./1282 A. D.Baghdad
Died	1298
Known for	Islamic calligraphy
Movement	Naskh (script) Thuluth
Patron(s)	Al-Musta'sim

Yaqut al-Musta'simi (also Yakut-i Musta'simi) (died 1298^[1]) was a well-known calligrapher^[2][3] and secretary of the last Abbasid caliph. He was born of Greek origin in Amaseia and carried off when he was very young.^[4] He codified six basic calligraphic styles of the Arabic script.^[5] Naskh script was said to have been revealed and taught to the scribe in a vision. He developed Yakuti, a handwriting named after him, described as a thuluth of "a particularly elegant and beautiful type."^[1] Supposedly he had copied the Qur'an more than a thousand times.^[6]

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  Thuluth script, 13th century

References

1. Efendi, Cafer; Howard Crane (1987). Risāle-i miʻmāriyye: an early-seventeenth-century Ottoman treatise on architecture: facsimile with translation and notes. Brill. p. 36. ISBN 978-90-04-07846-8. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
2. Dankoff, Robert (2004). An Ottoman mentality: the world of Evliya Çelebi. Brill. p. 42. ISBN 978-90-04-13715-8.
3. Çelebi, Evli̇ya; Robert Dankoff (2006). Evliya Çelebi in Bitlis: the relevant section of the Seyahatname. Brill. p. 285. ISBN 978-90-04-09242-6. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
4. Houtsma, M. Th (1987). E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936, Volume 1. BRILL. p. 1154. ISBN 9789004082656. YAKUT al-MUSTA'SIMI, Djamal al-DIn Auu 'l-Madjd ... some say he was a Greek from Amasia; he was probably carried off on a razzia while still very young. He was a eunuch.
5. Sözen, Metin; İlhan Akşit (1987). The evolution of Turkish art and architecture. Haşet Kitabevi.
6. Knappert, Jan (2005). Swahili culture, Book 2. E. Mellen Press. ISBN 978-0-7734-6109-3.