The Fatimid's Art in Egypt (With an emphasis on Kufic script)

This article is an attempt to present an introduction to the Fatimid government in Egypt and visual arts in particular the evolutionary course of Kufic script at that territory. The method of research and data collection was mainly based on using library sources. In collecting the data, efforts were made to translate the Arabic texts and in some case the Latin texts into the Persian or review the respective Persian texts. In the course of 209 years of sovereignty in Egypt, the Fatimid spent at least half of their government period in a constructive process in different political and social areas and devoted their time to the development of art. Experts and authorities to some extent have ignored the Egyptians’ arts and its flourishing state at Fatimid age. Therefore, it is necessary to makea multilateral review of what the Fatimid produced in the artistic domain. There is no doubt that the age of Fatimid was the age of thriving state of Islamic art in Egypt in which Islamic art and architecture reached their peak of glory. Though the materials presented in this article is short but it can familiarize us with the new findings of researches on the Fatimid›s art. At the end of the article, we will see that the origin of the primary Arabic script is the same Nabti script, which in the course of time underwent certain changes in particular at the early days of Islam and was known as Kuficscript. The Fatimid Shiite of the Egypt along with Iranian and Arab artists has had the highest rate of professional work on the promotion of aestheticism of Islamic art and Kufic script