Keywords: Gulzar calligraphic panel (Gulzar script).jpg Dhu al-Fiqar All around the larger letters composed in the nasta'liq style and filled with motifs appear smaller Shi'i prayers purposefully executed in a number of different scripts These include thuluth naskh nasta'liq shikastah tawqi' and Kufi One inscription is even written in reverse as if executed with the help of a mirror The sheer variety of these scripts along with the larger central gulzar composition was intended to showcase Husayn Zarrin Qalam's mastery of all the major calligraphic scripts http //hdl loc gov/loc amed/ascs 138 Library of Congress Calligrapher Husayn Zarrin Qalam 1212 H / 1797-8 AD PD-old-auto Persian calligraphy Library of Congress Arabic Persian and Ottoman calligraphy collection Persian manuscripts Animals forming letters or numerals Zulfiqar |