- The
Kufic script (Arabic: الْخط الْكوُفِي; Romanized: ‘Al-khat ‘al-Kūfī) is a
style of
Arabic script that
gained prominence early on as a
preferred script...
- Pseudo-
Kufic, or Kufesque, also
sometimes pseudo-Arabic, is a
style of
decoration used
during the
Middle Ages and the Renaissance,
consisting of imitations...
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books in
order to
avoid idolatry.
Although some
scholars dispute this,
Kufic script was
supposedly developed around the end of the 7th
century in Kufa...
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firmly to the 1st
century of hijra.
Kufic m****cripts can be
characterized by the
Kufic form of calligraphy.
Kufic calligraphy,
which was
later named after...
- The
Samarkand Kufic Quran (also
known as the
Uthman Quran,
Samarkand codex,
Samarkand m****cript and
Tashkent Quran) is an 8th or 9th
century m****cript...
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During the
Islamic Golden Age it was home to the
grammarians of Kufa.
Kufic script is
named for the city.
After the
Arabian hegemony and the fall of...
- red
centred on the
white band and the
takbir written 11
times each in the
Kufic script in white, at the
bottom of the
green and the top of the red band...
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restorations made, the
Kufic styles have
differed from time to time. The
mosque is said to have had
twelve thousand feet of
Kufic adornment.
Kufic inscriptions...
- Hafs (706–796 AD; 90–180 Anno Hegirae),
according to
Islamic tradition, was one of the
primary transmitters of one of the
seven canonical methods of Qur'an...
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words Allāhu akbar,
which had been a copy of Hussein's handwriting, to a
Kufic script. The
Iraqi flag
under Hussein had each of the two
words of the phrase...