The Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage at the University of Baghdad has organized a workshop entitled “Founding Inscriptions in Archaeological Buildings in Baghdad” delivered by the dead of the department of pure sciences, Prof. Dr. Saadi Ibrahim al-Darraji.
The lecturers addressed the founding paintings that adorned the facades of the archaeological buildings and their time in Baghdad and divided them into types of them executed by rent, as in the case of the Mustansiriyah school and the coral school, including an outlet in the form of marble paintings in Arabic, some in Ottoman Turkish, such as in the Mosque of Al-Aqaliya and the Mosque of Al-Ma’alaki, or executed in different glazed pieces in the form of large paintings, such as in the mausoleum and mosque of Mr. Sultan Ali. He then talked about the buildings in Baghdad, which were decorated with various commemorative inscriptions, some dating back to the Abbasid era and others to the Ottoman era, pointing out that most of these writings were lost due to obsolescence, wars, neglect and theft, and very few of them still adorn the facades of some mosques, shrines, schools and Khanate. He also explained that the types of lines in the foundational paintings can be limited to three types: Thuluth, Naskh as well as the Persian calligraphy.
