- The
Kufic script (Arabic: الخط الكوفي, romanized: al-khaṭṭ 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
Mushaf Uthmani,
Samarkand codex,
Tashkent Quran and
Uthman Qur'an) is a m****cript Quran, or mushaf, and...
- (Arabic: خَطّ),
derived from the
words 'line', 'design', or 'construction'.
Kufic is the
oldest form of the
Arabic script. From an
artistic point of view...
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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...
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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...
- Hafs (Abū ʽAmr Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah ibn Abi
Dawud al-Asadī al-Kūfī (Arabic: أبو عمرو حفص بن سليمان بن المغيرة الأسدي الكوفي, 706–796 AD; 90–180...
- m****cripts,
Kufic was the main
script used for
religious texts.
Western or
Maghrebi Kufic evolved from the
standard (or eastern)
Kufic style and was...
