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Calligraphy
Calligraphy is the art of decorative handwriting, highly developed in the Islamic world, where it adorned manuscripts, buildings and objects. Persian calligraphy, especially the nastaliq script, was a prestigious art at Iranian courts. It formed part of the cultural patronage of the Zand Empire at Shiraz.
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