Thuluth
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Thuluth (Arabic: ثلث "one-third") is a script variety of Arabic calligraphy, which made its first appearance in the fourth century of the Hegira (11th century AD). The straight angular forms of Kufic were replaced in the new script by curved and oblique lines. In Thuluth, one-third of each letter slopes. It is a large and elegant, cursive script, used in medieval times on mosque decorations.
Various types of script invented later could be said to have been derived from Thuluth by the introduction of quite slight changes of form.
Thuluth was used to write heading of surahs, Qur'anic chapters. Some of the oldest copies of the Qur'an were written in Thuluth, later copies were written in a combination of Thuluth and either Naskhi or Muhakkak, while still later copies (after the 15th century) were written in Naskhi.de:Thuluth
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