Among Zoroastrian burial items, there is a camel-shaped zoomorphic OSTADON lying there. It was found…
The art of manuscripts occupies a special place in Oriental culture.
After the Arab conquest of Central Asia, the local peoples became familiar with the Arabic script which gradually replaced the local written languages (Sogdian, Khorezmian, Uyghur, etc.).
Over many centuries, the Arabic script served for the development of spiritual culture of multilingual Muslim world as one of the main means of preserving information linked to different areas of social life. Despite the stable base of the Arabic script, different script styles were forming in the alphabet itself. As a result the Arabic calligraphy became for various peoples not only the written language but also the important type of fine art which still enjoys worldwide popularity.
You can learn more about this topic in the book-album “The Collection of the Al-Biruni Institute of Oriental studies, the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan” (part five, “Miniature and Calligraphy”) (Volume XXV) from the series "The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan".
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