The Aesthetics of Calligraphic Decorations in the Manuscript Qur’an and Archaeological Scenes until the fall of The Abbasid Caliphate in 656 AH
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Abstract
The art of manuscripts or the art of the Qur’an is one of the important topics in the field of
Islamic archaeology in general and decorative arts in particular, and it forms the main basis for
studying the arts of the book. This study presents the aesthetics of calligraphic decorations, how
they developed and the many aesthetics they carry, as it was a vast field to show the ingenuity of
the Muslim artist, and that wealth that is treasured by manuscripts, especially the Noble Qur’an
and archaeological scenes, because of the arts they contain in the field of calligraphy and
decoration, which enriches archaeological studies through the diversity of Islamic decoration
forms, the most important of which are vegetal, geometric and calligraphic decorations, and their
forms used in a new artistic style.
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