DR AHMED MOUSTAFA (EGYPTIAN b 1943 - ), THE GEOMETRIC COSMOS OF ARABIC NUMERALS, 1998 eight screen prints, each signed dated and numbered 202/250 in pencil in the margin together with original folio casing and booklet 38.5cm x 60.5cm each print. Note: Discovering the Archetypal Shapes of Arabic Numerals Writing was not at the forefront of the cultural priorities which the Arabs were concerned with before the advent of Islam. The culture of the Jahiliyya depended on the role of memory and oral delivery in transmitting everything connected with its history, its arts and its epic tales, and written records were but rarely resorted to.
DR AHMED MOUSTAFA (EGYPTIAN b 1943 - ), THE GEOMETRIC COSMOS OF ARABIC NUMERALS, 1998 eight screen prints, each signed dated and numbered 202/250 in pencil in the margin together with original folio casing and booklet 38.5cm x 60.5cm each print. Note: Discovering the Archetypal Shapes of Arabic Numerals Writing was not at the forefront of the cultural priorities which the Arabs were concerned with before the advent of Islam. The culture of the Jahiliyya depended on the role of memory and oral delivery in transmitting everything connected with its history, its arts and its epic tales, and written records were but rarely resorted to.
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