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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    read since the letters intertwine. Some classical calligraphers: Ibn Muqla (d. 939/940) Ibn al-Bawwab (d. 1022) Fakhr-un-Nisa (12th century) Shaykh Hamdullah...
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