such as the materials used in calligraphy and the nature of the Chinese written script as well as the esteem in which writing and literacy are held in traditional China. The earliest extant examples ...

and the scribes of Islam labored with passion to unfold the promise of the script.[1] The calligraphic tradition, initially growing out of the demand for illuminated Qur'ans, was later used to ...

“The artist who, in the shadow of the throne of His Majesty, has become a master of calligraphy is Muhammad Husain of Kashmir ...