Author

• Emadod-din Sheikh ol-Hokamai

Abstract

Writing sacred words of a text in the header or along the right margins of documents is of a long tradition in documentation of the Iranian Islamic period. The present article deals with the time of origin, developmental process, type of words and the name of this tradition. Included among other issues covered in this study are the non-Iranian origins and the Iranian-Islamic influence over the tradition as well as its various styles.

Keywords: Header writing, documentation, Mongol culture, writing styles and traditions used in documents, Islamic period inscriptions

Keywords

• Documentation
• Header writing
• Islamic period inscriptions
• Mongol culture
• writing styles and traditions used in documents