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Vol. IV · Monotheism
Al-Rahman
The Most Merciful
the Basmala's third word inscribed in luminous gold Thuluth calligraphy on a blue Persian tile, the divine mercy as the first description
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Names of the One God has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.