Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c17.116

c17.116

Some, however, look upon Yākūt Musta'ṣamī as the inventor of the Naskh character. Ta'līq is another mode of writing, and attributed to Tājī Salmānī. Ashraf Khān, Mīr Munshī to Emperor Akbar, was very proficient in this sort of handwriting. The well-known Nasta'līq character which is all curve and said to have been composed from the Naskh and Ta'līq by Khwājah Mīr 'Alī Tabrīzī in the time of Tīmūr, had existed, according to Abul Faẓl, before the time of that monarch, and so Mīr 'Alī could not be the composer of the character.