Ottoman calligraphers often demonstrated their skills by writing different styles and sizes of Arabic script on rectangular sheets of paper, which were then illuminated, mounted on pasteboard, and assembled into accordion fold albums, known as muraqqaʿ. This calligraphic panel containing Hadith, or sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, was composed using the thuluth style of script for the headings and the naskh style for the small lines. Each calligraphic section is lined with gold rulings and the entire panel is bordered with marbled paper.

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