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Letters of Light : Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design / J.R. Osborn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) : 2 halftones, 24 line illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674971127
  • 9780674978577
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 492.7/1109
LOC classification:
  • PJ6123 .O83 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- Introduction -- 1. The Layers of Proportional Naskh -- 2. Ottoman Script Design -- 3. European Printing and Arabic -- 4. Print in Ottoman Lands -- 5. Questions of Script Reform -- 6. Arabic Script on Computers -- Coda -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX
Summary: Arabic script is one of the world’s most widely used writing systems, for Arabic and non-Arabic languages alike. J. R. Osborn traces its evolution from the earliest inscriptions to digital fonts, from calligraphy to print and beyond. Students of communication, contemporary practitioners, and historians will find this narrative enlightening.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674978577

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- Introduction -- 1. The Layers of Proportional Naskh -- 2. Ottoman Script Design -- 3. European Printing and Arabic -- 4. Print in Ottoman Lands -- 5. Questions of Script Reform -- 6. Arabic Script on Computers -- Coda -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

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Arabic script is one of the world’s most widely used writing systems, for Arabic and non-Arabic languages alike. J. R. Osborn traces its evolution from the earliest inscriptions to digital fonts, from calligraphy to print and beyond. Students of communication, contemporary practitioners, and historians will find this narrative enlightening.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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