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by tamimio 1 hour ago
It’s interesting to see an article to decipher the sentence when I know Arabic handwriting calligraphy in different fonts! The “bisme” itself btw is also a combination of two different words. And “kashida” is a persian word not Arabic, the Arabic one is probably “maddah”.
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> And “kashida” is a persian word not Arabic, the Arabic one is probably “maddah”.

I thought it was "tatwil". I could be wrong, though. An interesting article on Arabic typography, whose correctness I can't judge:

https://www.khtt.net/en/page/1821/the-big-kashida-secret