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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 for Quran transcription and architectural decoration, and it has since become a reference and an archetype for a number of other Arabic scripts.
Muraqqa script by Mehmed Şevkî Efendi of the two intro pages of the Quran Muhaqqaq script in a 14th-century Qur'an from the Mamluk dynasty. The use of cursive scripts coexisted with Kufic, and historically cursive was commonly used for informal purposes. [19] Naskh first appeared within the first century of the Islamic calendar. [20]
[1] [2] Kufic is the oldest form of the Arabic script. From an artistic point of view, Arabic calligraphy has been known and appreciated for its diversity and great potential for development. In fact, it has been linked in Arabic culture to various fields such as religion , art , architecture , education and craftsmanship, which in turn have ...
Kufic script, 8th or 9th century (Surah 48: 27–28) Qur'an. The development of scripts in the Islamic empire, demonstrates the transition from an oral culture to convey information to a written form. Traditionally speaking in the Islamic empire, Arabic calligraphy was the common form of recording texts.
The Blue Quran was written in Kufic script, characterized by sharp angles and the absence of vowel markings. [2] Each page contains 15 lines, which is untraditional for the period. It was common for Qurans to have thick margins, few lines, and large spaces between words, much like the Amajur Quran, which contained three lines per horizontal ...
Gilchrist's dating of any Kufic manuscript to the later 8th century has been criticized by other scholars, who have cited many earlier instances of early Kufic and pre-Kufic inscriptions. The most important of these are the Quranic inscriptions in Kufic script from the founding of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem (692). [45]
Pseudo-Kufic, or Kufesque, also sometimes pseudo-Arabic, [1] is a style of decoration used during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, [2] consisting of imitations of the Arabic script, especially Kufic, made in a non-Arabic context: "Imitations of Arabic in European art are often described as pseudo-Kufic, borrowing the term for an Arabic script that emphasizes straight and angular strokes ...
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 ...