following Khalil ibn Ahmad al Farahidi lastly fixed the Arabic script around 786, many styles were developed, both for the writing down of the Qur’an plus other books, and for inscriptions on monuments as decoration.

Arabic calligraphy has not fall out of use as calligraphy has in the Western world, plus is still considered by Arabs as a main art form; calligraphers are held in huge esteem. Being cursive by nature, unlike the Latin alphabet, Arabic script is used to write down a verse of the Qur’an, a Hadith, or just a proverb, in a spectacular composition. The composition is often abstract, but sometimes the writing is shaped into an actual form such as that of an creature. One of the current masters of the genre is Hassan Massoudy

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