The cover of this red calligraphic album or ‘murakka’ is decorated in the center with three medallions of foliage scrolls in gold, framed with gold borders. This album contains the exercises of a calligrapher, where the letters are written in thulth and naskh scripts.These calligraphic exercises are mounted on marbled paper and the album is signed "The work of Ahmed Shevki".Calligraphy has always been considered the noblest and most featured art in the world of Islam as it transmits the Divine Revelations of God. The pious desire to beautify the Word of God was a central factor in the development of calligraphy in the Islamic world. One interesting aspect of Islamic art is that the form of expression can be found in a variety of media – in manuscripts, on ceramics, as large inscriptions done in stone for buildings or on metalwork such as this.
