Hijazi script (Arabic: خَطّ ٱَلحِجَازِيّ, romanized: khaṭṭ al-ḥijāzī) is the collective name for several early Arabic scripts that developed in the Hejaz (the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula), a region that includes the cities of Mecca and Medina. This type of script was already in use at the time of the emergence of Islam. A calligraphic Hijazi script is called a Ma'il script (Arabic: مائل, romanized: māʾil, lit. 'sloping'); these are found in a number of the earliest Qur'anic manuscripts. The two terms are often used interchangeably.
Hijazi was one of the earliest scripts, along with Mashq and Kufic. Earlier scripts included Ancient North Arabian and the South Arabian script.
The script is notably angular in comparison with other Arabic scripts and tends to slope to the right. The script does not yet contain any dots or diacritical marks to indicate vowel sounds: but does differentiate consonants by the intermittent use of dashes above the graphic letter forms.
Hijaziscript (Arabic: خَطّ ٱَلحِجَازِيّ, romanized: khaṭṭ al-ḥijāzī) is the collective name for several early Arabic scripts that developed in the Hejaz...
earliest known manuscripts of the Quran are collectively called the Hijaziscript, and are mostly associated with the Umayyad period. Most of the fundamental...
those of another seventh-century Quranic manuscript also written in Hijaziscript (now catalogued as Mingana 1572b). Following an approach by the Berlin-Brandenburg...
listed below. Hijazi manuscripts are some of the earliest forms of Quranic texts, and can be characterized by Hijaziscript. Hijaziscript is distinguished...
Ancient North Arabian script Ancient South Arabian scriptHijaziscript Maghrebi script Mashq script Muhaqqaq Naskh Nine-fold seal script (Chinese analogue...
of the Damascus Papers contained hijaziscript which was unique to each calligrapher's writing style. Hijaziscript disregarded the use of short vowels...
parchment was from between 568 and 645". The manuscript is written in Hijaziscript, an early form of written Arabic. This possibly was one of the earliest...
ؠـ ـؠـ ـؠ). In different calligraphic styles like the Hijaziscript, Kufic, and Nastaʿlīq script, a final yāʾ might have a particular shape with the descender...
الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-ḥurūf al-ʿarabiyyah), or Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written...
dissertation. Al-Mozainy, Hamza Q (1981). Vowel Alternations in a Bedouin Hijazi Arabic Dialect: Abstractness and Stress (Thesis). Austin, Texas: University...
calligraphers. Languages portal Ancient North Arabian script Ancient South Arabian scriptHijaziscript Kufic Muhaqqaq Naskh Persian calligraphy Rayhan Tawqi...
portal Al Baydha Project Desert of Paran Hejaz Vilayet Hejazi turban Hijaziscript Midian Relationship between the Hijaz, Shaam and Yemen Sharifate of...
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madrasa houses the ancient Qurʻon (Usmon Mus’haf), which was written in hijaziscript on deer skin during the caliphate of Usmon (644—656) and created in...
the Aramaic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Phoenician alphabet, and other scripts for Semitic languages. These older alphabets contained only 22 letters...
from Arabic and Persian into Malay; a tangible product of this is the Jawi script. Coupled with the composing of original Islamic literature in Malay, this...
Nabataean script evolved into the Arabic script recognizable from the early Islamic era. There are inscriptions in an undotted, 17-letter Arabic script dating...
Hejazi Arabic or Hijazi Arabic (HA) (Arabic: حجازي, romanized: ḥijāzī, Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [ħɪˈdʒaːzi]), also known as West Arabian Arabic, is...
and comprises two layers of text, both of which are written in the Hijaziscript. The upper text largely conforms to the standard 'Uthmanic' Quran in...
most complete surviving Qur’an codices in the world, produced in the Hijaziscript in the Hijaz region of Arabia where the holy places of Mecca and Medina...
palimpsest, both the upper and the lower text are the Qur'an written in the Hijaziscript. The upper text appears to present a complete text of the Qur'an, as...
discovered in Bayir, Jordan. A characteristic of Nabataean Arabic and Old Hijazi (from which Classical Arabic much later developed) is the definite article...
one leave showing chapter division and verse-end markings written in Hijaziscript from the Birmingham Quran manuscript, dated between c. 568 and 645,...
Syriac forms. The Arabic script shown is that of post-Classical and Modern Arabic—notably different from 6th century Arabic script. (Arabic is placed in...
Library. The manuscript is written in ink on parchment, using an Arabic Hijaziscript and is still clearly legible. The leaves preserve parts of Surahs 18...
prestige spoken and written register of Arabic in the Umayyad Caliphate. Old Ḥijāzī is characterized by the innovative relative pronoun ʾallaḏī (Arabic: ٱلَّذِي)...
Arabic script first came to the Maghreb with the Islamic conquests (643–709). The conquerors, led by Uqba ibn Nafi, used both Hijazi and Kufic scripts, as...
handwriting or script in contrast to style and system requirements of calligraphy Cf. ar:خط (توضيح) (Hatt, disambiguation) Hijaziscript (خط حجازي ḫaṭṭ...