Arabic Calligraphy

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Sura “Fath”. Sura was sent down when Medina's Muslim community leaded by prophet Muhammad (God Bless Him!) signed up peace treaty for ten years with Curaish community from Mecca in 628 . From that time peace spreading of Islam on Arabian peninsula began. Kazan University lithography.
Rare Ottoman Engraved Stamp for Talismanic Printing - Michael Backman Ltd
Rare Ottoman Engraved Stamp for Talismanic Printing - Michael Backman Ltd
(#419) An Ottoman Talismanic Shirt (jama) with Extracts from the Qur'an and prayers, Turkey, 16th Century
An Ottoman talismanic cotton shirt (Jama) covered with text written in a variety of scripts, including Muhaqqaq, Naskh, Ghubar, Thuluth and square Kufic, in assorted colours, arranged in numerous panels, roundels, cartouches, crescent moons, stars and cypress tree forms, the lower section with musenna-form calligraphy reserved in Thuluth script, with interstices and borders comprising interlacing foliate motifs | Turkey, 16th century
From "Past Postage", an Etsy shop that sells enlarged digital prints of vintage postage stamps. (Pre-Turkey Ottoman Empire)