sacred calligraphy

Evidence

"“The primordial creative act was at once the Primordial Word which is the origin of all sound and of the Noble Quran as a sonoral universe, the primal Point which is the origin of the sacred calligraphy that is the visual embodiment of the Sacred Word,” Nasr states."

Remarks

In the perennialist school of art history, calligraphy is not understood through its formal qualities but as a 're-Creation' and 'hierophany' of a primordial form (p. 12). The text discusses the 'sacred calligraphy' as a visual manifestation of the 'Sacred Word' rather than an object of chemical study (p. 12). This entry reflects the theoretical subject matter discussed in the chapter.