{shekaste Nastaliq Font}

There are two ways to use these fonts, the most common is to download them and use them in all your programs. Some of them are free and you can use them even if you don't have a Crab account. But if you have an account , you can buy a Crab license and use these fonts in all your programs.

I have divided the list into three sections: for Arabic, for Persian (Farsi), and for Kurdish (Sorani). These are basically all the languages I use the most. But for some I also use the Persan/Farsi fonts for Urdu, and for some I use them for the Kyrgyz alphabet (Syr). So if you want to try Persian/Farsi, or maybe Arabic with some Kurdish, or if you want to try some additional languages, I have a list for you!

Nastaliq script is the most commonly used script for writing Arabic text in Iran and Afghanistan. It is inherited from the Persian language and it is also the base for most modern Arabic fonts (there is no equivalent for the Arabic Naskh script).

Nastaligh is a cursive form of nastaliq which has a flowing style and look similar to the Arabic-script cursive. Its origins lie in the Arabic nastaligh script. It is used in modern Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan.

Text is written in nastaliq shekasteh script in black ink with some red. The initial page, which seems to have been added later when the codex was rebound, contains the title of the work and a brief sketch of the author's life and works in Persian, written in black ink in nastalq shekasteh script. These notes also present the same information about the time and place of production of this codex as is presented on the last page of the manuscript(noted above). In addition, written in Arabic cursive in pencil, this page contains a note which states, erroneously, that this codex is the Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi.

The text of the book is written in Naskh script (or sometimes Nastaliq or nastalijeq), a calligraphic style of writing the Arabic alphabet used in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, and widely used in Persian books. 827ec27edc