When thinking about typography and political/cultural movements, I thought of the Iconoclast movement in Muslim societies. Images of people and animals were viewed as being sacrilegious idols and therefore banned from the religious text (quran), so scribes and authors found creative, ornate ways to incorporate beauty with typography. They experimented with different materials, layouts, patterns, textures, etc. Check out these examples from different qurans throughout the years:
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These are beautiful works of art. I wonder if the scribes also do this to honor God's word because they felt that plain lettering/pages would be considered an offense or not special enough.
These are gorgeous Antoinette - Arabic letterforms are so fluid and beautiful, it's such a lovely written language.
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