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What Is The Old Arabic Influence On American Culture

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When the Turks migrated west during the tenth century they came across the Islamic Religion. Most of the Turkish people converted over to the new religion and forgot about the old Uyghur alphabet. They then soon found themselves using the Arabic Script as their new alphabet. Most Turkish artist soon were producing and mastering several types of art from these scripts. One of the most earliest types of scripts that was used was the old Arabic script with some things changed. It was known as Kufic, it was taught in Iraq. During some its most early uses where for writing down the Qur'an in this new type of script. Kufic was soon followed with new types of scripts with some being Thuluth and Naskhi. Turkish calligraphy was a constant developing

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