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  2. Kufic - Wikipedia

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    Geometrisches Kufi in 593 Schriftbeispielen. Deutsch – Kufi – Arabisch. Christoph Brunner, Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-906206-10-3. Mack, Rosamond E. Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300–1600, University of California Press, 2001, ISBN 0-520-22131-1

  3. 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.

  4. Arabic calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic alphabet is one of the most widely used scripts in the world. Many scholars believe that the alphabet was created around the 4th century CE. [5] The alphabet consists of 28 letters written from right to left.

  5. Islamic calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Kufi was used primarily in decoration, while Naskh served for everyday scribal use. [24] Thuluth. A digital rendering of the Bismillah in an 18th-century Islamic ...

  6. Ruqʿah script - Wikipedia

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    Ruqʿah (Arabic: رُقعة) or Riqʿah (رِقعة) is a writing style of Arabic script intended for the rapid production of texts. It is a relatively simple and plain style, used for everyday writing and often used for signs. [1]

  7. Noto fonts - Wikipedia

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    Noto is a free font family comprising over 100 individual computer fonts, which are together designed to cover all the scripts encoded in the Unicode standard.As of November 2024, Noto covers around 1,000 languages and 162 writing systems. [1]

  8. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Noto Kufi Arabic • Reem Kufi • Lalezar • Jomhuria • Rakkas See also. Ancient South Arabian script; Algerian braille; Arabic braille; Arabic calligraphy ...

  9. Naskh (script) - Wikipedia

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    Naskh [a] is a smaller, round script of Islamic calligraphy.Naskh is one of the first scripts of Islamic calligraphy to develop, commonly used in writing administrative documents and for transcribing books, including the Qur’an, because of its easy legibility.