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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, preserved at Tashkent, is a Kufic manuscript, in Uzbek tradition identified as one of Uthman's manuscripts, but dated to the 8th or 9th century by both paleographic studies and carbon-dating of the parchment, [43] [44] which showed a 95.4% probability of a date between 795 and 855. [44]
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.
Leaf from the Blue Quran showing Sura 30: 28–32, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.. The Blue Quran (Arabic: الْمُصْحَف الْأَزْرَق, romanized: al-Muṣḥaf al-′Azraq) is an early Quranic manuscript written in Kufic script. [1]
Islamic manuscripts had a variety of functions ranging from Qur'anic recitation to scientific notation. These manuscripts were produced in many different ways depending on their use and period. These manuscripts were produced in many different ways depending on their use and period.
According to this inventory, the manuscript is just an element of a 125 religious manuscripts collection, 65 of which are Qurans. [7] This document gave a legal status to the manuscript as a protected item of the library. “ And a Khitmah of Qur’an in sixty juz’, of big format, with a Kufic Rayhani script, five lines, on parchment.
The Uthman Taha Quran is a Mus'haf written with the Kufic script by the calligrapher Uthman Taha according to Warsh recitation and other recitations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Mus'haf description
The Kufic script of the Almoravid dinar was imitated in a maravedí issued by Alfonso VIII of Castile. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The minbar of the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque , created in 1144, was the "last major testament of Almoravid patronage," and features what is now called Maghrebi thuluth , an interpretation of Eastern thuluth and diwani traditions.