- 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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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...
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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...
- 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...
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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...
- forms.
Ancient m****cripts are
divided into two
major types,
Hijazi and
Kufic.
Kufic style also has its own subdivisions. The term
Hijazi was
coined in the...
- to
distinguish between different consonants.
Early Basmala Kufic Middle Kufic Modern Kufic in Qur'an Abu al-Aswad's
system of
Harakat was
different from...
