90+ Knotted Kufic Calligraphy Alphabet

Jan 30 2020 explore hb0604 s board calligraphy in kufi on pinterest. The blue green calligraphy is done in a kufic script.

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Early kufi eastern kufi foliate kufi knotted kufi square kufi. Arabic script and the art of calligraphy the development and spread of calligraphic scripts the first calligraphic script to gain prominence in qur ans and on architecture and portable works of art was kufic which features angular letters horizontal format and thick extended strokes. Square kufic by joumana. Available petrography and existing documents which belong to 7th century ad indicate that in different kinds of irregular arabesque writing naskh and kufic scripts have been carelessly.

In the top line of this figure arabic letters are written from right to left while their english equivalents are written from left to right. This angular slow moving dignified script was also used on tombstones and coins as well as for inscriptions on buildings. Its evolution into these major roles was a reflection of the early muslims need to avoid as their beliefs required figures and pictorials that were used as idols before islam was established in the arabian peninsula. The ghaznavid kufi has elongated vertical lines and rounded ends with decoration around the characters.

Old square kufic alphabet chart 2003 notes. Such is the case below where the ascenders are skillfully connected to create a geometric knotted pattern. Arabic calligraphy was originally a tool for communication but with time it began to be used in architecture decoration and coin design. From top to bottom.

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