Different Style of Writing Onvan al-Sharaf is an Arabic work written by Abu-l-‘Abbas Ahmad ibn Mohammed al-Maqqari. Al-Maqqari lived in the eighth and ninth century AH. The main text of his work is in Shafi’i Fiqh; the initial letters of each line is a separate treatise on the Science of Poetry (ʿArūḍ) and the final letters of each line is another work about rhymes; respectively, the letters and the words of the two middle columns’ lines present some points about and syntax. In the manuscripts of this work, the letters and the words that express these sciences are colorful and mostly red.