“He then ranks significant individuals by creating index scores and standardising them for each category.”
“The great calligrapher, Muhammad ibn Muqla, a vizier at the court of three Abbasid caliphs, was charged with the task of standardising and refining the myriad cursive scripts.”
“They let us see how we can squeeze the life out of a process by standardising, ratifying, certifying, bureaucratising, formalising.”