Mishkín-Qalam or Meshkin Ghalam? The Name, Its Meaning and Its Spellings

Mishkín-Qalam, Meshkin Ghalam, Meshgin Ghalam, Mishkin Qalam and Mushkin Qalam all name the same man: the Persian master calligrapher born Mírzá Ḥusayn-i-Iṣfahání (1824–1912), one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá’u’lláh. In Persian his title is written مشکین‌قلم and pronounced mesh-keen qa-lam (IPA: [meʃˈkin ɢæˈlæm]). The English spellings differ because there is more than one way

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