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	Rumi Gallery: FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the 14th century AD an Iranian calligraphy master, Ali Tabrizi, created a new form of writing which is called Nastaliq (also known as the "Bride of Scripts") by combining Talig and Naskh and adding new rules to them.
		Nastaliq has flourished and advanced in Iran during past 7 centuries, with 12 principles in mind.
		Nastaliq is an art in which laws of math and nature are obeyed, and has a mysterious power that enables the artist to create a beautiful piece of calligraphy by using several forms of the same letter, or by employing various forms of the words and using them in different compositions.
	www.rumigallery.com /calligraphy.html (718 words)

	The Spirit of Islam: Experiencing Islam through Calligraphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nasta'liq, a light and elegant cursive script, was developed from the naskhi and taliq scripts by 15th century Persian calligrapher Mir Ali Sultan al-Tabrizi.
		The nasta'liq script was the predominant style of Persian calligraphy during the 15th and 16th centuries.
		Nasta'liq was frequently incorporated into contemporary paintings and is traditionally considered to be the most elegant of the Persian scripts.
	www.moa.ubc.ca /spiritofislam/unity/nastaliq.html (216 words)

	Mailbag
		It is a well known fact that during the last 11 years of displacement, a big section of the Kashmiri speaking population especially the younger generations lost all contact with such media of communication (e.g.
		Nastaliq as was reported in a section of the press.
		At that time I strongly argued in favour of our biradari teaching their wards the Nastaliq lest they lagged behind and were cut off from the literature published in their mother tongue.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /01dec02/mail.htm (1197 words)

	What is Persian Calligraphy?
		Nastaliq is the best marriage of these elements and has been welcomed among Persian speakers even to the present day.
		Shifih script, which is a derived from Nastaliq, the letters interlock in kind of a lovers' embrace.
		Perhaps the most profound impact of the Mongol invasions on the arts of Iran was the new role of manuscript illustration, which became a significant and influential forum for country patronage.
	www.raminworld.com /index/iran/Persian_Calligraphy.htm (1041 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mir Emad Hassani
		Nastaliq was developed by Mir Ali Tabrizi in 14th century by combining Naskh and Taliq styles.
		It is believed that Nastaliq scripting reached its magnificence in Mir Emad's works and current practice of Nastaliq is closely following his manner.
		Nastaliq style was slightly modified after Mir Emad by Mirza Reza Kalhor mainly as an adaptation to printing machine's era.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Mir_Emad_Hassani (194 words)

	[Cyberclub] 222-year-old calligraphy specimen at National Museum of Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The press release says calligraphy in the Muslim world is regarded as the miracle of Islam which developed in a brief span of time into a highly well-proportioned, highly refined styles of superb beauty.
		The copy of the Holy Quran transcribed by him in the year 1000 AD is a remarkable peace of writing, particularly the long swinging curves at the final round letters.
		Nastaliq, in which the object of the month is transcribed, is the bride of Islamic styles of writing.
	lists.isb.sdnpk.org /pipermail/cyberclub/2003-May/003140.html (466 words)

	Iran Culture House, New Delhi
		Mir Ali, surnamed qudwat al-kuttab, 'model of scribes', is said to have dreamt of a flight of geese whose wings and movements inspired the shapes of letters.
		Even today teachers of nastaliq tell their pupils to shape this or that part of a letter like a bird's wing, beak or head.
		Naskh and Thuluth have been used for writing Qur'ans and Nastaliq is mostly used for poetic writing.
	www.iranhouseindia.com /calligraphy.htm (1482 words)

	Rumi Gallery: Persian Calligraphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nastaliq is an art in which laws of mathematics and nature are obeyed.
		It has a mysterious power that enables the artist to create beautiful pieces of calligraphy by using several forms of the same letter, or by employing various forms of the words and using them in different compositions.
		Within the last 50 years, Nastaliq artists developed another mysterious form of this art which can be called calligraphic painting.
	www.rumigallery.com (191 words)

	South Asian Media Net > OPINION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There is an overwhelming majority of both Muslim and Hindu writers who apply the Nastaliq script to given expression to their feelings in writing.
		It is sad though that at times the language written in the Nastaliq has been described as Muslim Kashmiri and that in the Sharda or the Devnagri as the Hindu Kashmiri.
		At the same time it does not mean that those wanting the other script should not use it: they must enrich it with their literary contributions so that it gains spontaneous acceptance with those who speak the language.
	www.southasianmedia.net /index_opinion4.cfm?id=39907 (803 words)

	Computer composition of nastaliq script of the urdu group of languages - Patent 4680710
		A method for computer composing the Urdu group of languages in Nastaliq script according to claim 1, wherein certain characters are classified as End of Ligature characters and ligature formation in a word is based on the end of ligatures.
		A method for computer composing the Urdu group of languages in Nastaliq script according to claim 1, wherein the vertical placement of characters are classified by way of specified baselines when the character occurs independently or when the character ends a ligature either in the whole form or the spoiler form.
		Another object of the invention to provide a Nastaliq font in which character, shosha, and diacritic mark shapes have been optimized and standardized according to pattern recognition principles so that every character, shosha, and diacritic mark may be defined as a combination of distinct parts called the body group, rest group, and diacritic mark group.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4680710.html (4854 words)

	Announcing Nastaliq Navees v2.0.1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The public release of Nastaliq Navees in May 1997 represented a significant breakthrough in that it made the highly complex Nastaliq calligraphy available at moderate cost in any application which uses QuickDraw GX typography, including several available desktop publishing and graphics packages.
		For further information about Nastaliq Navees, including system requirements and the character sets supported, see the documentation.
		Nastaliq Navees is shareware -- U.S. (For site license options and other discounts, see the registration form within the package.) Users who have already paid the registration fee for an earlier version may upgrade to the new 2.0.1 release at no further charge.
	www.sil.org /computing/fonts/NastaliqNavees.html (308 words)

	MWU!: Writing and Dancing
		Nastaliq, because the art of calligraphy was a movement that was very much pursued by Iranians, or so our books say (they tend to be very Iranocentric).
		Nastaliq calligraphy follows mathematical geometric codes of proportion; the thickness and length of each line is a fraction of six dots.
		Nastaliq’s fashion senses and emancipate her from the Atkins diet, a thorough understanding of what has shaped herstory is necessary.
	www.muslimwakeup.com /main/archives/2004/08/002315print.php (1024 words)

	Chalipa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nastaliq is the innocent melody created by the fingertips of the one who is in love with God."
		Two of those styles, Taliq and Naskh, were combined and transformed by the Persians into a new system called “Naskhtaliq” For smoothness of pronunciation the new style of calligraphy became known as Nastaliq, the name which is used today.
		Nastaliq is less demanding, it glides over the breaks with a winged grace.
	www.alihessami.com /downloads/chalipa (727 words)

	Calligraphy style
		This form of Nastaliq requires special skills because calligraphers use a pen that has a 2 cm nib.
		The principles of Nastaliq are used but it also has additionally principles.
		This form of Nastaliq is used for books, documents, letters, and manuscripts.
	rshamshiri.50megs.com /caligraphy/style.htm (289 words)

	Code chart for Urdu Nastaliq Unicode Font
		This chart details the glyphs which are part of the Urdu Nastaliq Unicode font, and the corresponding Unicode character codes.
		Note that many characters have additional codes associated with them, which are present in the font, but have not been displayed in the chart, e.g., FE8F and 0628 represent the same character.
		This font is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
	tabish.freeshell.org /u-font/chart.html (80 words)

	Iransaga - Cursive Scripts
		Mir Ali is said to have dreamt of a flight of geese whose wings and movement inspired the shapes of letters.
		Numerous copies of Persian literary manuscripts, among them the famous edition of Ferdawsi's Shah-namah were produced at the Timurid court, and it was here that nasta'liq was perfected.
		Shikastah is really an elaborate, romantic form of handwriting in which, contrary to its implied meaning, the natural pauses between the letters and words are blurred by the writer joining up the normally empty passages of the verse or sentence.
	homepages.force9.net /artarena/cur.htm (799 words)

	Khatt_Naqsh_Nastaliq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But he also explores new effects by writing on textured and metallic backgrounds as in his works “Satr navisi ” of 1979 written with ink on colored background and of 1982 written with ink on gold sheet.
		He often mixes Nastaliq with Shikasteh Nastaliq in the same work, and varies the location and size of the different calligraphic parts of his work in inventive compositions.
		Less successful are his works that ignore the delicate quality of Nastaliq, and render it in three dimensional treatments which turn it into a heavy and contrived element in the painting, such as in his untitled work of 1369 AH in which he painted word as a masonry window screen [4].
	www.sakkal.com /articles/nastaliq_naqsh/article.html (774 words)

	Nasta'liq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		En Irán, Nasta'liq se escribe generalmente con una pluma de lámina de alguna manera gruesa (con una punta de cerca de 5m m), y una clase especial de tinta del carbón.
		Producir la alta calidad Nasta'liq en la impresión es un proceso exigente.
		Por ejemplo, la tentativa de Monotype de poner Nasta'liq en ejecucio'n para el compositor de la foto que componía tipo dio lugar a un repertorio del glyph de 20.000 diversos gylphs.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/na/Nastaliq.htm (190 words)

	Urdu Nastaliq Unicode
		Urdu Nastaliq Unicode is a Windows True-Type Urdu Font which uses Unicode Arabic coding.
		Urdu Nastaliq Unicode font uses the Nastaliq style, which is what is natural for writing Urdu.
		Urdu Nastaliq Unicode uses those particular characters out of the Unicode Arabic and Arabic Presentation Forms, which are necessary for displaying Urdu, and leaves out the ones specific to Arabic.
	tabish.freeshell.org /u-font (603 words)

	Nastaliq Navees v2.0.1 Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For users who may not have the ALK available, but nevertheless wish to use Nastaliq calligraphy for Urdu, Farsi, or other languages, an alternate font is provided.
		This is Nastaliq Navees R, which is encoded as a "pseudo-Roman" font, and can be used with no special keyboard layout or other script-specific software.
		This character set is designed to allow Urdu or other text in Nastaliq script to be typed on a standard U.S. keyboard, with most characters being assigned to reasonably close English equivalents (or a nearby key, if the closest equivalent is already occupied).
	scripts.sil.org /cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Nastaliq_Features (351 words)

	Iran News - 'Spiritual joy is all that Iranian artists have' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Forughi also won first prize in the Nastaliq and Shekasteh-Nastaliq styles at a calligraphy competition in Turkey organized by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture.
		Besides Naskh Neiriz, there are four other versions of the Naskh style in the Islamic world, he explained, saying that two of them, the Osmani and Arabi styles, are used outside of Iran and the other two, the Azari and Tabriz styles, are commonly used in Iran.
		He considers Naskh Neiriz to be the most delicate style, adding that Nastaliq is rooted in Naskh Neiriz.
	iranmania.com /News/ArticleView?NewsCode=36043&NewsKind=Current+Affairs (715 words)

	Hamzanama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On one side of most folios is a painting, about 54cm x 69cm in area, done in a fusion of Persian and Indian styles.
		On the other side of most folios is Arabic text in nastaliq script.
		The folios are ordered, and the text on the back of one folio accompanies the painting on the subsequent folio.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamzanama (254 words)

	SIL Software: Nastaliq Navees
		The Nastaliq Navees ("Nastaliq Writer") font package provides the capability to render Arabic, Urdu, and related languages in the Nastaliq style of calligraphy.
		This is achieved through the use of QuickDraw GX, which allows fonts to define complex behaviors where the glyph used to render any particular character is determined by the surrounding characters.
		Nastaliq Navees should work with any application which supports QuickDraw GX typography.
	www.sil.org /computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=32 (141 words)

	Monotype Imaging: Non-Latin Font Info
		Among the best known of these calligraphic styles are Naskh, Kufi, Ruqaa, Nastaliq, Maghribi, Diwani and Thuluth.
		Design acknowledgement: Noori Nastaliq typeface and ligature system was designed by Mr.
		Mirza Jamil T.I. Because of its calligraphic nature, Noori Nastaliq is not available as a standard font for the common hardware platforms.
	www.monotypeimaging.com /ProductsServices/wt_info.aspx?type=Arabic (485 words)

	About Us - Concept Software
		Replacing the outmoded system of joints used in type-setting of Urdu and thereby retaining the elegance and beauty of the written language with Nastaliq Script.
		Each ligature was calligraphically designed by Mr Ahmed Mirza Jamil so as to make it suitable for feeding it into the memory of a Computer.
		Mr Ahmed Mirza Jamil is the owner of the Noori Nastaliq typeface.
	www.inpage.com /noori.htm (116 words)

	Calligraphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The art of Persian calligraphy is known to have started about 12th century and a new type of script was formed from combining Naskh and Taliq scripts and was called Naskh-Taliq which was later shortened to Nastaliq.
		Historians mention Mir-Ali Tabrizi as the founder of Nastaliq or at least the one who regulated this art and was the first artist to be well known for it.
		Calligraphers were highly regarded and respected people and often were well educated scholars who spent their lives recording masterpieces of Persian poetry and prose.
	www.aarrow.org /Calligraphy.htm (135 words)

	Unicode Conference Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Designed by Pakistani calligrapher Mirza Jamil, Noori Nastaliq is a calligraphic Arabic-script typeface originally devised for use on a Monotype imagesetter in the 1970s.
		Once this proprietary equipment became obsolete, Noori Nastaliq could not be readily implemented for many years with then-current technology of digital fonts.
		Recognized as the preferred writing style in Pakistan, Nastaliq is a complex calligraphic style of the Arabic script.
	www.global-conference.com /iuc28/biosabstracts/a310.html (397 words)

	Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thus, we have a large number of different shapes to recognize from the point of view of Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
		Most of the published material in Urdu is printed in Nastaliq Script.
		Nastaliq Script was invented by Mirza Ahmad Jamil, by caligraphing more than 17,000 ligatures.
	www.doc.ic.ac.uk /~sha1/OCR.htm (378 words)

	www.noormicrofilmindia.com/zillure17
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		Remarks:- This treatise is about the properties and merits, and the method of use of the variousspecios and kinds of China root.
		Remarks:- The compiler is one of the Christian philosophers and physicians who lived in Baghdad andduring the time of al_Muqtadir Billah `Abbasi wrote several books on medicine, philosophy, logic andastronomy / astrology.
	www.noormicrofilmindia.com /zillure17.htm (1126 words)

	Nastaliq Navees v2.0.1 Troubleshooting tips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This section attempts to provide answers to the most common problems encountered with the Nastaliq Navees package.
		The text editor uses WorldScript but not GX typography, and as such cannot use (or even see) Nastaliq Navees.
		However, the Font Information window (available from the File menu) should show that Nastaliq Navees is available, and it can be selected for typesetting with a \font...
	scripts.sil.org /cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Nastaliq_Support&_sc=1 (518 words)

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