The main fields of studies of Arabic calligraphy

Calligraphy raises many questions and no Therh any art of the arts, for
inclusion in many aspects of human life, and the fields that are of direct contact with its needs, aesthetic and functional. It therefore does not concern the matter of calligraphers with, but beyond that to being one of the most important art that reflect the evolution of human thought in modern anthropological studies.
Among the most prominent fields of studies of Arabic calligraphy are:
1. Historical studies in the genesis and evolution of Arabic calligraphy.
2. Linguistic studies in the concepts and vocabulary development.
3. The rules of Arabic calligraphy - its assets and its rules.
4. Character design printing forms and their uses in computer technology.
5. The aesthetic logic of the line according to the Arab and Islamic philosophy.
6. Uses of calligraphy in contemporary visual arts.
And still all these fields (historical, linguistic and professional, technical, philosophical and technical) need to further study and research and development.
Perhaps the subject of the use of Arabic calligraphy in the visual arts and plastic, which gives it character by Arabs and Muslims, one of the important issues that are not limited to the practical side of this use, but based on the premises intellectual, aesthetic and relevant thought the Arab-Muslim, and the magnitude of the points of convergence and the intersection with Western thought .
I would like to concentrate on the intellectual side of this use, leaving the practical side to another study to come.
That the different logic, aesthetics of Arabic calligraphy and Islamic art in general than the logic aesthetic of art the western calls for a multiplicity of methods and measurement standards between them, and not to measure the aesthetic values ​​of one scales the other, or to call a pairing between them, their being belonged to the opposing lines of argument different and contradictory, sometimes, in respects of the following:
1. Intellectual aspect: The difference in Islamic thought from the Western materialist thinking.
2. Aesthetic: The beauty in the difference between absolute and relative beauty.
3. Practice: The problematic in the processes of creativity and workmanship.
4. Technically: The use of tools, materials and different treatment methods.