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Kufic

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Ku·fic also Cu·fic  (kfk, ky-)
adj.
Relating to or being an angular form of the Arabic alphabet used in making fine copies of the Koran.
[After al-Kfa, a town of south-central Iraq.]
Kufic, Cufic [ˈkuːfɪk ˈkjuː-]
adj
(Linguistics / Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) of, relating to, or denoting an early form of the Arabic alphabet employed in making copies of the Koran
n
(Linguistics / Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) the script formed by the letters of this alphabet


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Highlights included a fourteenth century page from an Egyptian Koran in Kufic script and four eighteenth century Iranian leather pages from the Book of Divination.
Musulmanes, Musulmans au Caire, a Teheran, Istanbul, Paris, Dakar by Moyer, Eileen / African Arts
The rigid authority of such a regime, or its "unkind logic," are likened here to the renowned Iraqi schools of grammar, when the mariner of mariners laments: "The Basran grammar opposed me, and so did the Kufic grammar.
Stirring words: traditions and subversions in the poetry of Muzaffar ... by Bardenstein, Carol / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
The brilliant Uskudar, for example, is named for one of Istanbul's Asiatic suburbs, and its highly formal--if asymmetrical--design of overlapping, vertical and horizontal oblongs includes many collaged elements, among them the Turkish flag, arabesques of Kufic script, even a kitsch photograph of the sun setting behind the Blue Mosque.
Peter Hristoff by Ash, John / Artforum International
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