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2017 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
7. Introduction
verfasst von : Brian Wichmann, David Wade
Erschienen in: Islamic Design: A Mathematical Approach
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Abstract
The quote above comes from the monumental work by Moustafa and Sperl on Arabic penmanship. Their result is a mathematical analysis of the Proportional Script—an elegant form of calligraphy. The analysis undertaken here is much simpler than the curves in calligraphy since we restrict our attention to geometric patterns using straight lines. The importance of geometry and proportion in art was clearly understood in the early years of the Islamic world.The script is spiritual geometry, although made perceptible by a physical instrument. Euclid, cited by Abu Baker as-Suli (Moustafa and Sperl 2014, Vol. 2, p. 287)