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and vow lovers of the Glorious Qur'an for the creation of Its ever exquisite volumes, adding to the grandeur of the rich Islamic culture. In harmony with this cultural obligation, the Aqiq Institute has studied all Islamic scripts and has ultimately designed a new Kufi script based on the Piramuz Kufi. This new script is, not only very expressive, but also amazingly beautiful. This unique script has managed to be amongst the top Islamic scripts, in view of all experts in this area, giving rise to the scribing of an extraordinary volume of the Munificent Qur'an by Ustad Bahram Saleki. His thirteen years of painstaking endeavour in calligraphy has resulted in the Glorious Aqiq Qur'an, the most beautiful and delicate manuscript in the entire history of the Islamic artistry, according to the experts in this line. All aspects of beautiful Islamic book embellishment have been employed for the creation of this manuscript. Accentuation and punctuation marks have been added to the text using three beautiful colours of gold, azure blue, and cinnabar red. The Aqiq ink (agate, or carnelian colour) for the text is composed of madder, saffron, and walnut shield.


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Paper
Hand-made acid-free paper is cut into sheets of 40 54 cm., and is utilised for the creation of the Aqiq Qur'an for its durability and resistance against adverse effects of the atmosphere. After being dyed by tea, papers were smeared with starch mucilage, and after drying, they were polished and smoothened repeatedly by agate stone (aqiq or achate). Papers were then scattered with gold dust, before being written upon, so that the gold particles create a pleasant surface, comfortable to the eyes.

Colours
About forty natural or chemical dyes, in original form, or in composite, have been used in the Aqiq Qur'an. This includes madder, lapis lazuli, cochineal, titanous and zincky white powder (cat's eye), carbon black, cinnabar, pomegranate, walnut shield, condensed tea mucilage, turmeric, acetate of copper (verdigris), indigo, saffron, red lead, henna, iron dyestuff, gold, silver, brass, copper and burned copper.These features have rendered such a spiritual beauty and grandeur, that the Aqiq Qur'an can be recognised as a turning point in the history of the Islamic book beautification art.