Thuluth (Arabic: ثُلُث, Ṯuluṯ or Arabic: خَطُّ الثُّلُثِ, Ḵaṭṭ-uṯ-Ṯuluṯ; Persian: ثلث, Sols; Turkish: Sülüs, from thuluth "one-third") is an Arabic script variety of Islamic calligraphy. The straight angular forms of Kufic were replaced in the new script by curved and oblique lines.

thuluth script, in calligraphy, medieval Islamic style of handwritten alphabet. Thuluth (Arabic: “one-third”) is written on the principle that one-third of each letter slopes. It is a large and elegant, cursive script, used in medieval times on mosque decorations.

2023年1月5日 · Arabic for "third", the name Thuluth derives from the fact that this style was a third of the size of other scripts used during the Umayyad period. Requiring knowledge of complex proportions to...

2020年4月20日 · In terms of aesthetics, Thuluth — dating back to the days of the Ummayad Caliphate in the seventh century — is noticeably cursive, exuding a visually sophisticated and complex flow of interlacing...

A digital rendering of the Bismillah in an 18th-century Islamic calligraphy from the Ottoman region, Thuluth script. Thuluth was developed during the 15th century and slowly refined by Ottoman Calligraphers including Mustafa Râkim, Shaykh Hamdallah, and others, till it became what it is today. Letters in this script have long vertical lines ...

Thuluth (Arabic: ثُلُث, Ṯuluṯ or Arabic: خَطُّ الثُّلُثِ, Ḵaṭṭ-uṯ-Ṯuluṯ; Persian: ثلث, Sols; Turkish: Sülüs, from thuluth "one-third") is an Arabic script variety of Islamic calligraphy. The straight angular forms of Kufic were replaced in the new script by curved and oblique lines.

Thuluth script is characterized by curved letters written with barbed heads . The letters are associated and sometimes intersecting , thus engendering a cursive flow of extensive and often complex proportions . Thuluth is known for its elaborate graphics and stunning plasticity .