Zoomorphic Calligraphy

"This new mode was not a matter of script metamorphosing into living
forms which are also readable letters, but of using script to delineate
such forms. Seldom had the flexibility of the Arabic alphabet been so
tested.

This practice established itself only relatively late in Islamic art,
when the taboos outlawing religious iconography had lost some of their
power.

[Zoomorphic calligraphy] developed [..] in Ottoman Turkey, India and
Qajar Iran [and] was known as early as 1458."

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/06/zoomorphic-calligraphy.html

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