The Divan of Arabic Calligraphy in Egypt during Muhammad Ali's Dynasty

The inaugural volume in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's series “Studies in Contemporary Arabic Calligraphy.” It reads Arabic calligraphy and its history during the dynasty of Muhammad Ali (1805–1952) as a vast epistemic and historical field — one embracing every facet of human creativity — and seeks to understand the history of Egypt through it. Its material was gathered with the help of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, the Egyptian Society for Arabic Calligraphy, and the families of several eminent Egyptian calligraphers.