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calligraphy in plaster molding has long been a unique platform for professional designers and decorative calligraphers due to the ease of molding the plaster and the longevity of the work. since the origin of the kufi alphabet used in plaster inscriptions is simplekufi, it is generallybelieved that the common letters must be drawn alike. however, as exemplified in the phrase under study, the mo...

Abstract Twenty-nine chapters ( sūras ) of the Qur’an begin with disjointed letters al-ḥurūf al-muqaṭṭaʿāt ). These fourteen Arabic alphabet thus became known as “openers chapters” fawātiḥ aṣ-ṣuwar This paper focuses on Ibn ʿArabī’s writings three letters, namely, ʾalif-lām-mīm , well their meaning, and power talisman he associated them. was meant to capture so that a spiritual Seeker could rea...

the purpose of this article is to identify the various mystical interpretations of horuf-e-moqatta’e (separated letters) in qur’an. ten mystical interpreters-the qur’an-al-azim, haghayegh-al-tafsir, lata’ef- al-esharat, kashf-al-asrar, ara’es-al-bayan, ta’vilat, rouh-al-bayan, manzum e safi, bayan-al-sa’adah- have been selected from several centuries and their explanations, after entries about ...

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To the Editors: In their recent publication, Swati S. Sathe and Peter J. Harte (Mech. Dev. 52,77-87, 1995) claim to have "reisolated' the extra sex combs (esc) gene of Drosophila from our published transgenic stock (Frei et aI., EMBO J. 4,979-987, 1985) by inverse PCR, using P element and rosy primers. This description is wrong because our published transgenic stock carried the esc trans gene w...