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Letters of light: Arabic script in calligraphy, print, and digital design

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Field name	Details
ISBN	0674971124 (hardcover)
ISBN	9780674971127 (hardcover)
Author	Osborn, J. R.
Title	Letters of light : Arabic script in calligraphy, print, and digital design / J.R. Osborn
Publisher	Cambridge, MA ; London : Harvard University Press, 2017
Physical desc.	ix, 268 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index.
Contents	Introduction: past scripts and future visions -- The layers of proportional naskh -- Ottoman script design -- European printing and Arabic -- Print in Ottoman lands -- Questions of script reform -- Arabic script on computers -- Coda: beyond Arabic.
Person as subject	İbrahim Müteferrika -- 1674?-1745
Subject	Arabic language -- Writing -- History
	Arabic language -- Written Arabic -- History
	Communication and technology -- Arab countries
	Calligraphy, Arabic -- History
	Printing, Arabic

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