Re: `bin' or `ibn' Ladin?

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, William Annis wrote:

>         I don't know why you're studying Arabic (I did it because I
> love the music, of all things), but if you have an appreciation for
> the calligraphy, hunt down the diwaani style.  It's very hard to read
> at first, but it is just so beautiful.  This URL has an example of it,
> as well as very carefully written ruq'aa (here spelled riq'aa for some
> reason):
>
> It comes from a waquf, "endowed" copy of the Qur'aan -- it says so in
> margin in a beautiful black ink with silver in it.  By waquf, I mean
> it was probably donated to a Qur'aan school.  Of course, children
> everywhere when given a pen feel the need to doodle, so there was some
> small pencil marks on one side and red pen on the other.  Otherwise
> I'm sure the nice Saudi man I got the leaf from would not have been
> ripping pages out and sending them to calligraphy collectors.
I like the Arabic square script (whatever it is called) so much that the
Quran when written in Nyenya'a is always written in a square form of
Nyenyakana (Nyenyakana is my working name for the modified Hiragana
formerly used to write Nyenya'a in general; in everyday use nowadays, it
is written with an alphabet derived from "round" Nyenyakana, which is
fairly close to Hiragana, but with a few additions for sounds not present
in Japanese).

---frank