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  2. File:Arabic Typesetting Font.svg - Wikipedia

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  3. Kufic - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Kairouani calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Kairouani style was used for the first time in the Nurse's Quran, finished in 1020 [1] during the last decades of Kairouan’s intellectual and political golden era. The manuscript was kept for centuries in the maqsurah of Ibn Badis, a small cell measuring 8x6 meters next to the qibla wall that served as a library, [2] in the main prayer room of the Great Mosque.

  5. Arabic calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Arabic calligraphy can be on occasion be found in places of worship for Muslim's known as Mosques with engravings of Quranic verses / Ayah present on parts of the architecture itself. [18] The most widely recognized example of Arabic Calligraphy on a place of Islamic worship is the Kaaba present in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. [19]

  6. Islamic calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    It became the basis of modern Arabic print. Kufic is commonly believed to predate naskh, but historians have traced the two scripts as coexisting long before their codification by ibn Muqla, as the two served different purposes. [24] Kufi was used primarily in decoration, while Naskh served for everyday scribal use. [25]

  7. Scheherazade New - Wikipedia

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    Scheherazade New, formerly Scheherazade, is a traditional Naskh styled font for Arabic script created by SIL, freely available under the Open Font License. It supports a wide range of Arabic-based writing system encoded in Unicode. The font offers two family members: regular and bold. [1]

  8. File:Basmala kufi.svg - Wikipedia

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  9. Nasri Khattar - Wikipedia

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    Nasri Khattar (1911–1998) (Arabic: نصري خطار was an architect and type designer from Lebanon.He is famous for pioneering an Arabic typeface he called "Unified Arabic," a typeface that condensed the possible forms of Arabic letters, making it more suitable for printing technologies of the time. [1]