[HN Gopher] Five Centuries of Copying, Illustrating and Reading ...
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       Five Centuries of Copying, Illustrating and Reading Amir Khusraw's
       Poetry
        
       Author : Thevet
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-10-09 16:37 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | webmobdev wrote:
       | This reminded me of how the British Parliament still prefers to
       | archive its debates and legislation on calf skin! ( _Why is the
       | UK still printing its laws on vellum?_ -
       | https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35569281 )
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       | On another similar note, say what you want about the muslim
       | invaders who eventually became settlers and rulers in India
       | (especially the Mughal empire), but their dedication to
       | patronising all artistic form (art, architecture, music, dance,
       | drama, literature etc.) is something to be genuinely admired.
       | (Ofcourse, that doesn't mean that Hindu and Buddhist kings didn't
       | do so in the past). Even the Urdu language (it's foundation and
       | vocabulary is built on Sanskrit and Hindi, with Persian, Arabic,
       | and even Turkish words and uses a Persian-Arabic script for its
       | written form) they created is truly a language of the artists in
       | how it can be written creatively and artistically in various
       | forms without losing its meaning (examples of Urdu Calligraphy -
       | https://yandex.com/images/search?from=tabbar&text=urdu%20cal...
       | ), and how pleasing and natural it sounds in poetry or songs.
        
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