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Documenting gaps and requirements for support of Arabic and Persian on the Web and in eBooks.
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Arabic writing styles #206

Open TitusNemeth opened 4 years ago

TitusNemeth commented 4 years ago

Section 2.7.2. Different writing styles has some errors in it.

Ibn Muqla lived hundreds of years before the styles Ruqʻa, Taʻlīq and Diwani even arose, so couldn't have described them. I would suggest generally avoiding somewhat mystical figures and sources such as Muqla, of whom we have very little first-hand evidence. I guess the text meant to refer to the Six Pens, canonised later and comprising different styles.

r12a commented 4 years ago

Seems like we should redraft that text. @ntounsi any comment, since you provided the current text?