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Mushaf (Arabic: مُصْحَف, romanized: muṣḥaf, IPA:; plural مَصَاحِف, maṣāḥif) is an Arabic word for a codex or collection of sheets, but also refers to a written copy of the Quran. [1]
Its website offers the Arabic Qur'an, recitations, textual search, translations, images of early Qur'an manuscripts, [1] and exegetic commentaries. [2] Since 1985, The Complex made over 128 million books of the Qur'an, [3] which is widely used by all sects of Islam. Original copy was written by calligrapher, Uthman Taha [3]
The project was started by Primož Peterlin and is currently administered by Steve White. The aim of this project has been to produce a package of fonts by collecting existing free fonts and special donations, to support as many Unicode characters as possible. The font family is released as GNU FreeFont under the GNU General Public License.
Kufic was prevalent in manuscripts from the 7th to 10th centuries. Around the 8th century, it was the most important of several variants of Arabic scripts with its austere and fairly low vertical profile and a horizontal emphasis. [9] Until about the 11th century it was the main script used to copy the Quran. [10]
The Samarkand Kufic Quran (also known as the Mushaf Uthmani, Samarkand codex, Tashkent Quran and Uthman Qur'an) is a manuscript Quran, or mushaf, and is one of the 6 manuscripts which were penned under the caliphate of Uthman ibn Affan. They represented an effort to compile the Qur'an into a standardized version.
The owners of Al-Dar Al-Shamiya (Arabic: الدار الشامية) in Syria owned the rights to print the first copy of the Quran that Uthman Taha wrote for them in 1970. [ 9 ] This Mus'haf was again printed in Medina for the first time, after minor repairs to the first edition of Al-Dar Al-Shamiyya , by the Quran Review Committee , which took ...
Uthman ibn Abduh ibn Husayn ibn Taha al-Halyabi (or Uthman Taha, Arabic: عثمان طه) is a Kazakh [citation needed]-Syrian-Saudi calligrapher of the Quran in the Arabic language renowned for hand-writing Mushaf al-Madinah issued by the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Qur'an.
Traditional Arabic (W) Amiri ( G ) More recently, fonts, such as the Bulaq Press -inspired Amiri typeface or Monotype Imaging 's Bustani font, have created user-friendly digital manifestations of naskh for use in graphic design and digital typography, mixed with Ruqʿah .