Sacred Text

Evidence

"If one were to ask what is Islam, one could in answer point to... the calligraphy of the Sacred Text itself."

Remarks

The 'Sacred Text' is cited as a primary medium for Islamic art, where the substrate and the calligraphy are seen as inextricable from the religion itself by perennialist scholars (p. 13). The text discusses the geographic bounds of such works as encompassing 'all the lands between the Atlantic and the Indian oceans' (p. 15).