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Qutub
Minar |
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On the outside, the minaret, as well as some of the other edifices, such as
the here depicted walls of the Alai
Darwaza, are decorated with calligraphic inscriptions
in Kufic, a style of Arabic script with straight often elongated lines and
sharp angles, that quote verses from the
Koran.
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