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| Keywords: Shikastah script.jpg en This calligraphic fragment is executed in fine shikastah literally broken script and includes an initial bismillah and chapters surahs 1 and 114 of the Qur'an At the top appears the first chapter of the Qur'an entitled al-Fatihah The Opening <br>These two short surahs from the Qur'an appear together here probably because they are short easily memorized and recited aloud It is quite unusual however to find Qur'anic verses executed in shikastah a very fluid script invented in Persia Iran by the 18th-century calligrapher Darvish 'Abd al-Majid al-Taliqani Tavoosi 1987 34-35 During the 18th and 19th centuries Qur'ans were written in naskh or nasta'liq as these scripts were more legible than shikastah For this reason this particular fragment stands out as scarce proof that some Qur'anic ayahs were executed in shikastah in Iran during the 18th-19th centuries LOC-calligraphy ascs 102 Unknown calligrapher 18th-19th centuries PD-Art Persian manuscripts Qur'an manuscripts 18th century Library of Congress Arabic Persian and Ottoman calligraphy collection Manuscripts in Iran Shekasteh Nasta'liq | ||||
