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Amar Nastaleeq ( Urdu: امر نستعلیق) is a Nastaliq style Embedded OpenType and TrueType Font which was lowest in size, created for web embedding on Urdu websites in 2013. The font was announced by Urdu poet Fahmida Riaz. [1] Jang Group of Newspapers has rendered this font from the developers. [citation needed]
Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language.While, It tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ghazal (غزل) and nazm (نظم), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana (افسانہ).
History. The name Nastaliq "is a contraction of the Persian naskh-i ta'liq (Persian: نَسْخِ تَعلیق), meaning a hanging or suspended naskh. " [6] Virtually all Safavid authors (like Dust Muhammad or Qadi Ahmad) attributed the invention of nastaliq to Mir Ali Tabrizi, who lived at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century.
Date released. 1981. Noori Nastaleeq is a nastaleeq used in Pakistan. [1] It was first created as a digital font in 1981 as the collaboration between Ahmed Mirza Jamil and Monotype Imaging. [2] In 1982, the Government of Pakistan named the nastaleeq as an "Invention of National Importance". [2] Daily Jang is a user of the nastaleeq.
Islamic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy, in the languages which use Arabic alphabet or the alphabets derived from it. It includes Arabic, Persian, Ottoman, and Urdu calligraphy. [2][3] It is known in Arabic as khatt Arabi (خط عربي), which translates into Arabic line, design, or construction. [4]
Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa degree awarded by the University of Karachi in recognition of his achievement. Ahmad Mirza Jamil ( Urdu: احمد مرزا جمیل; 21 February 1921 – 17 February 2014) [1] was a Pakistani calligrapher best known for creation of Noori style of Nastaliq, which was first created as a digital typeface (font ...
The Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. [1] [2] As of 7 September 2024, it has 210,513 articles, 184,191 registered users and 12,664 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 20th in terms of depth among Wikipedias with over ...
Rekhta (website) Rekhta is an Indiamerary web portal started by Rekhta Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Urdu literature. [4] The Rekhta Library Project, its books preservation initiative, has successfully digitized approximately 200,000 books over a span of ten years. [5]