കുഫിക്

വിവിധ അറബി ഭാഷ സ്ക്രിപ്റ്റുകളിലെ ഏറ്റവും പഴക്കം ചെന്ന കാലിഗ്രാഫിക് രൂപമാണ് **കുഫിക്**. പഴയ നബാറ്റിയൻ ലിപിയിലെ പരിഷ്കരിച്ച രൂപമാണ് ഇത്. ഇറാഖിലെ കുഫായിൽ ഏഴാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിന്റെ അവസാനത്തോടെ കുഫിക് വികസിപ്പിച്ചു.
## ചിത്രശാല

File:The ‘Uthman Qur'an - Kufic.jpg|Page from a Qur'an in Kufic style, 8th century (Surah 15: 67–74)
File:Kufic Quran, sura 7, verses 86-87.jpg|Kufic script from an early Qur'an manuscript, 8th-9th century. (Surah 7: 86–87)
File:Turkey.Konya035.jpg|Manuscript of the Surat Maryam of the Qur'an; Kufic script on gazelle skin, 9th century. (Surah 19: 83–86)
File:4.8-17-1990-Guld-koranside-recto-og-verso.jpg|The leaves from this Qur'an written in gold and contoured with brown ink have a horizontal format. (9th century)
File:Bowl with Kufic Inscription.jpg|Bowl with Kufic Inscription, 9th century - Brooklyn Museum
File:Bowl with Kufic Calligraphy, 10th century.jpg|Bowl with Kufic Calligraphy, 10th century  - Brooklyn Museum.
File:Qur'an folio 11th century kufic.jpg|Folio of a Qur'an in kufic style, ink, color and gold, 11th century, Iran. (Surah 92: 1–5)
File:11th century gold Fatimid armlet (Syria).jpg|11th-century gold Fatimid armlet, inscribed with good wishes in the Kufic script, (Syria).
File:Edmund Fry - Arabic alphabet in Kufic script, Pantographia (1799).jpg|Kufic alphabet, from *[[Fry's Pantographia]]* (1799)
File:Alijlas kufi.png|Geometric Kufic sample (Surah 112, *[[al-Ikhlas]]* or "The Surah of Monotheism", of the Qur'an), read clockwise, starting at bottom left (begins with the Basmala).
File:Meknes Medersa Bou Inania Calligraphy.jpg|Geometric Kufic from the Bou Inania Madrasa (Meknes); the text reads بركة محمد or *barakat muḥammad*, i.e. Muhammad's blessing.
File:Kufic Muhammad.svg|Another example of geometric or square Kufic script, showing four instances of the name Muhammad (in black) and four times Ali (in white); often used as a tilework pattern in Islamic architecture
File:Al-Walid ibn Abdul-Rahman - Inscribed Pound Weight - Walters 476 - Top.jpg|Inscription in Kufic (743).  The Walters Art Museum.
File:Isfahan Royal Mosque minaret.JPG|*Banna'i* on a minaret – a repetitive pattern of square Kufic inscriptions.
File:Basmala kufi.svg|Drawing of an inscription of Basmala in Kufic script, 9th century. The original is in the Islamic Museum in Cairo (Inventar-Nr. 7853)
File:Flag of Iraq.svg|The flag of Iraq (2008)
File:Flag of Iran.svg|The flag of Iran (1980)
File:Shahada.svg|Arabic text of the Shahada in square Kufic script, shown as buildings topped with minarets.


## ഇതും കാണുക

* Mashq script
* Hijazi script
* Ancient South Arabian script
* Ancient North Arabian script
* Thuluth
* Naskh
* Tawqi
* Muhaqqaq
* Rayhan
* Persian calligraphy

## അവലംബം

* Mack, Rosamond E. Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300–1600, University of California Press, 2001 
*Wolfgang Kosack: *Islamische Schriftkunst des Kufischen. Geometrisches Kufi in 593 Schriftbeispielen. Deutsch – Kufi – Arabisch.* Christoph Brunner, Basel 2014, .

## പുറം കണ്ണികൾ

* Square Kufic lectures: alphabet (stylized), examples, square designs
* Kufic manuscript alphabet
* On The Origins Of The Kufic Script
* Kufic Script
* Square Kufic Script
* Square Kufic
* Square Kufic explained

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