Page of Calligraphy
Calligrapher Muhammad Ashraf Al-Radhawi Indian
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This page comes from a book copied by Muhammad Ashraf al-Radhawi, who wrote it in 1658 while serving as the Mughal governor of Kashmir. The text is in Arabic and Persian, and consists of prayers and supplications (called munajat) dedicated to ‘Ali (d. 661), the fourth caliph and first Shi'i Imam. They are written in nasta'liq, a cursive script that developed in the ninth century and used most often in Iran and India for writing Persian.
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