{"id":451,"date":"2004-09-07T07:12:57","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T12:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/09\/07\/near-east-collection-at-yale-u-samples"},"modified":"2004-09-07T07:12:57","modified_gmt":"2004-09-07T12:12:57","slug":"near-east-collection-at-yale-u-samples-of-arabic-and-persian-callig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/09\/07\/near-east-collection-at-yale-u-samples-of-arabic-and-persian-callig\/","title":{"rendered":"Near East Collection at Yale U: Samples of Arabic and Persian Calligraphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a413'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.yale.edu\/neareast\/calig\/calig.html\"><br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.library.yale.edu\/neareast\/calig\/00000009.gif\"><\/a><br \/>\n <br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yale.edu\">Yale University<\/a> has samples of Arabic<br \/>\n and Persian Calligraphy in their Near East Collection.  Pictures of<br \/>\n some of those samples are also available online for the curious who<br \/>\n want to see what Arabic Calligraphy looks like.  I&#8217;ve always found<br \/>\n Arabic Calligraphy very beautiful even though I can&#8217;t understand anything<br \/>\n in Arabic at all.   If you&#8217;re curious go<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.yale.edu\/neareast\/calig\/calig.html\">Check it out<br \/>\n yourself<\/a>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Thanks to a new blog on Arabic culture called<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miladus.org\/me\/\">Politics, Language and Cultures of<br \/>\n the Arab World<\/a> for pointing out this link.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale University has samples of Arabic and Persian Calligraphy in their Near East Collection. Pictures of some of those samples are also available online for the curious who want to see what Arabic Calligraphy looks like. I&#8217;ve always found Arabic Calligraphy very beautiful even though I can&#8217;t understand anything in Arabic at all. If you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}