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 for Quran transcription and architectural decoration, and it has since become a reference and an archetype for a number of other Arabic scripts. It developed from the Arabic alphabet in the city of Kufa, from which its name is derived.[3] Kufic is characterized by angular, rectilinear letterforms and its horizontal orientation.[4] There are many different versions of Kufic, such as square Kufic, floriated Kufic, knotted Kufic, and others.[4] The artistic styling of Kufic led to its use in a non-Arabic context in Europe, as decoration on architecture, known as pseudo-Kufic.
^Déroche, François. Catalogue des manuscrits arabes. Deuxième partie: manuscrits musulmans, Tome I, 1. Les manuscrits du Coran. Aux origines de la calligraphie coranique (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1983), pp. 41–45.
^D'Ottone Rambach, Arianna (January 2017). "The Blue Koran. A Contribution to the Debate on its Possible Origin and Date". Journal of Islamic Manuscripts. 8 (2). Leiden: Brill Publishers: 127–143. doi:10.1163/1878464X-00801004. S2CID 192957200.
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...
firmly to the 1st century of hijra. Kufic manuscripts 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 manuscript and Tashkent Quran) is an 8th or 9th century manuscript...
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...
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 (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...
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...
forms. Ancient manuscripts 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...
(Arabic: خَطّ), derived from the word 'line', 'design', or 'construction'. Kufic is the oldest form of the Arabic script. From an artistic point of view...
(the West African Sahel). Maghrebi script is directly derived from the Kufic script, and is traditionally written with a pointed tip (القلم المدبَّب)...
the West, indeed by the late Middle Ages there was a fashion for pseudo-Kufic imitations of Arabic script used decoratively in Western art. Until the...
manuscripts, Kufic was the main script used for religious texts. Western or Maghrebi Kufic evolved from the standard (or eastern) Kufic style and was...
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...
stripes of the Arab Liberation flag, with the takbir written in green in the Kufic script in the centre. This basic tricolour has been in use since its adoption...
romanized: al-Muṣḥaf al-′Azraq) is an early Quranic manuscript written in Kufic script. The dating, location of origin, and patron of the Blue Quran are...
typically round stamps, such as medallions or disks with animals, birds, or Kufic inscriptions. Colored lead glass, typically blue or green, has been found...
to the structure's stability against tremors. At the top of the tower, Kufic inscriptions were originally observable. The tower is protected by Iran's...
attributes) of God (Allah) are featured on the Qibla wall in traditional Kufic calligraphy, designed by the prominent UAE calligrapher — Mohammed Mandi...
In Christian Spain, artists adopted Islamic decorative motifs such as Kufic letters and Moorish arches. The creation of heavily armoured cataphract-type...
Islamic sites, including the Islamic University. Tashkent holds the Samarkand Kufic Quran, one of the earliest written copies of the Quran, which has been located...
(al-Ghani) Related articles Rashidun Caliph Family tree Election Campaigns Assassination Samarkand Kufic Quran Uthmaniyya Category Islam portal v t e...
Muhammad in square (or geometric) Kufic script, often used as a tilework pattern in Islamic architecture Geometric Kufic from the Bou Inania Madrasa (Meknes);...
large square Kufic characters, and on the right-end of the wall there are two lines of inscription. In the court some graves also have Kufic inscriptions...