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    Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muqla (Arabic: أبو علي محمد بن علي ابن مقلة, romanized: Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muqla; 885/6 – 20 July 940/1), commonly...
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  • of al-Hasan ibn Bahlul's source (named merely "Abu Ali") as Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Muqla, see p. 58. Van Bladel 2017, p. 54. On Ibn Muqla's possible motivations...
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    of al-Hasan ibn Bahlul's source (named merely "Abu Ali") as Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Muqla, see p. 58. van Bladel 2017, p. 54. On Ibn Muqla's possible motivations...
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    eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries, due to their use by scribes. Ibn Muqla is credited with standardizing the "Six Pens" of Islamic calligraphy,...
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    of al-Hasan ibn Bahlul's source (named merely "Abu Ali") as Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Muqla, see p. 58. Van Bladel 2017, p. 54. On Ibn Muqla's possible motivations...
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    were arrested and executed, while Ibn Muqla was forced to flee the capital. Al-Qahir appointed Muhammad ibn al-Qasim ibn Ubayd Allah as vizier. Al-Qahir...
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    When Mu'nis and al-Muqtadir fell out in 927, Abu'l-Abbas and the vizier Ibn Muqla tried to mediate between his father and the powerful commander-in-chief...
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    making a rough draft. Some classical calligraphers: Medieval Ibn Muqla (d. 939/940) Ibn al-Bawwab (d. 1022) Fakhr-un-Nisa (12th century) Yaqut al-Musta'simi...
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    script Muhaqqaq script Ruq'ah script Some classical calligraphers: Ibn Muqla (d. 939/940) Ibn al-Bawwab (d. 1022) Fakhr-un-Nisa (12th century) Shaykh Hamdullah...
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  • However it was later perfected by Ibn al-Bawwab (d. 1022), the master calligrapher who continued Muqla's tradition. Muqla's system became one of the most...
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  • succeed him, along with Ibn Muqla and al-Nayramani. However, as he was too identified with the Banu'l-Furat faction, Ibn Muqla became vizier. Fadl kept...
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  • atmosphere of disintegration, Ibn Ra'iq likewise refused to send his province's revenue to Baghdad. The Caliph's vizier, Ibn Muqla, tried to restore central...
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  • even the vizier Ibn Muqla, and becoming the de facto ruler of the state. From this position, he headed an expedition against Harun ibn Gharib, a cousin...
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    contemporary calligraphers may use a wider variety of colors. Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Muqla, a Persian official of the Abbasid caliphate, developed a standardized...
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  • geographic spread under the Abbasid Caliphate. In this period, Ibn al-Bawwab and Ibn Muqla had the most influence on the standardization of Arabic script...
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  • calligraphy had undergone standardization and reform in the Mashriq under Ibn Muqla and Ibn al-Bawwab, it hadn't done so in the Maghreb. ar-Ribati wrote Stringing...
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  • due to the patronage of the vizier Ibn Muqla. It was Abu Abdallah who, against a bribe of 20,000 dirhams to Ibn Muqla, secured the tax-farming contract...
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  • Ibn Muqla, a rival of Hamid's for the viziership, causing tensions with Hamid which may have been the reason he discontinued serving under him. Ibn Muqla...
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    calligraphy was introduced by Abbasid vizier and calligrapher Abu 'Ali Muhammad Ibn Muqla (866–940). He developed this proportional writing system around two shapes:...
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    script is a direct descendant of the old Kufic script that predated Ibn Muqla's al-khat al-mansub (الخَط المَنْسُوب proportioned line) standardization...
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    Onshi, empress of Japan (d. 954) Gao Xingzhou, Chinese general (d. 952) Ibn Muqla, Muslim official and vizier (or 886) Reccared, Galician clergyman (d....
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    Wuyue (b. 925) July 4 – Wang Jianli, Chinese general (b. 871) July 20 – Ibn Muqla, Abbasid vizier and calligrapher August 5 – Li Decheng, Chinese general...
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  • era to denote a specific writing style. Master calligraphers like Ibn Muqla and Ibn al-Bawwab contributed to the development of this and other scripts...
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    at Cyrenaica. Summer – Ibn Muqla, an Abbasid official and vizier, is disgraced after his failed campaign against Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, the rebellious governor...
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    other decoration. In the 10th century, a new approach to writing emerged. Ibn Muqla is known as the originator of the khatt al-mansub, or proportioned script...
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  • of the treasury. Finally, in November 936, the failure of the vizier Ibn Muqla to control the provincial governors and confront the disastrous financial...
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    script. This style of calligraphy was invented by the Abbasid vizier Ibn Muqla in the 3rd century of the Hijra. The twist, counterclockwise, mirrors...
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  • (d. 952) Ibn Muqla, Muslim official and vizier (or 886) Reccared, Galician clergyman (d. 923) Zhao Ying, Chinese chancellor (d. 951) 886 Ibn Muqlah, Muslim...
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  • at Cyrenaica. Summer – Ibn Muqla, an Abbasid official and vizier, is disgraced after his failed campaign against Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, the rebellious governor...
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  • ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā ibn Dā'ūd ibn al-Jarrāḥ (Dayr Qunna, 859 – Baghdad, 1 August 946), was a Persian official of the Abbasid Caliphate. Descended from a family...
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