Naskh[a] is a smaller, round script of Islamic calligraphy. Naskh is one of the first scripts of Islamic calligraphy to develop, commonly used in writing administrative documents and for transcribing books, including the Qur’an, because of its easy legibility.

Naskhī script is a cursive style developed from the earliest everyday business scripts. It has remained perhaps the most popular script in the Arab world. Naskhī is a legible, stately script with emphasis on a horizontal line and on the proportions between letters.

Naskh is a cursive style with roundness in its characters .According to the scholars , Naskh script emerged in 310 AH and still using for copying the Holy Quran. It basically crossed eleven centuries of its development which it took in several regions by different Calligraphers.

The script, text layout, and illumination are all typical of Safavid Qur'ans produced during the second half of the 16th century in the southwestern Iranian city of Shiraz. Naskh is the name for all cursive scripts that are mainly used to copy texts that use the Arabic language.

Jan 3, 2011 · Arabic Calligraphy: Naskh Script for Beginners. The first stroke-by-stroke guide ever produced for learning to write Naskh, one of the six major cursive Arabic scripts. Its origins can be traced back to the late eighth century AD and it is still in use today, over 1300 years later.

Naskh eventually replaced Kufi c as the script of choice for the Qur’an; now more Qur’ans are written in Naskh than in all other scripts combined Popular for writing books because of its legibility

Naskh (Arabic: نسخ‎) is a calligraphic style for writing in the Arabic alphabet, thought to be invented by the calligrapher Ibn Muqlah Shirazi. The root of this Arabic term nasakh-a means "to copy".

The Naskh script is the fundamental to all other forms of cursive Arabic scripts. It is one of the prime classical master-script, and also the foundation for 6 classical master pens.

What is a Naskh Script? The term ‘naskh’ is derived from the Arabic word ‘نَسَخَ’ meaning to transcribe or copy. Naskh replaced Kufic as the script of choice for the writing of the Noble …

eMashq provides you with over 6000 forms of letters in the Naskh script to divert your design from the usual and familiar computer scripts.