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' The Chinese script ') is a calligraphic style used in China for the Arabic script. While Sini Script can refer to any type of Arabic Calligraphy influenced by Chinese Calligraphy , it exists on a spectrum in which the amount of Chinese influence increases as it is found further East.
The 21,000 square metre complex featured a tiled green dome with a crescent moon, four smaller domes, and soaring minarets, and was the last major mosque in China built in the Arabic style until its domes were removed in 2023, [3] with features from Nabawi Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
The Great Mosque of Xi'an, one of the oldest mosques in China. Chinese Islamic architecture, Sino-Islamic architecture, or Islamic architecture of China are terms used to indicate the architectural tradition and cultural heritage of the Muslim populations in China, both of mainland and outer China, which has existed since the 8th century CE to the present. [1]
Sini-style Arabic calligraphy of the first Shahada (La 'ilāha 'illā Allāh) at the Great Mosque of Xi'an. Sini is a Chinese Islamic calligraphic form for the Arabic script. It can refer to any type of Chinese Islamic calligraphy, but is commonly used to refer to one with thick and tapered effects, much like Chinese calligraphy.
Many Song dynasty mosques were built in this Arabian style in coastal cities, due to communities of Arab merchants living in them. [ 4 ] the entrance of Quanzhou Qingjingsi Mosque ( Chinese : 泉州清净寺 ; pinyin : Quán Zhōu Qīng Jìng Sì ) is the only example of stone entrances in mainland China. [ 5 ]
The page on the right has mixed lines of Arabic—marked by a continuous black line on top—and their Chinese translation in Xiao'erjing script, that follow the Arabic original on the same line. Pages from a Book titled "Questions and Answers on the Faith in Islam", Published in Xining , which includes a Xiao'erjing–Hanji transliteration ...
This text, which was found at Bulayiq near Turpan in northwest China, is the earliest evidence of literary composition in Pahlavi, dating to the 6th or 7th century AD. [13] The extant manuscript dates no earlier than the mid-6th century since the translation reflects liturgical additions to the Syriac original by Mar Aba I , who was Patriarch ...
Calligraphy was a valued art form, and was regarded as both an aesthetic and moral pursuit. An ancient Arabic proverb illustrates this point by emphatically stating that "Purity of writing is purity of the soul." [6] Beyond religious contexts, Islamic calligraphy is widely used in secular art, architecture, and decoration. [7]