Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or being an angular form of the Arabic alphabet used in making fine copies of the Koran.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Cufic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
Cufic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Describing an
angular form ofArabic script .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Only 165 of the Iraqi parliament's 275 lawmakers were present Tuesday, and only 110 voted for the new red, white and black flag with "Allahu Akbar" "God is great" in Kufic script, the ancient calligraphy developed in Mesopotamia.
Hullabaloo 2008
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Rachid, with an eye for detail, was immediately taken with these but had trouble reading the ancient Kufic letters, lovingly created in zellij.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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Rachid, with an eye for detail, was immediately taken with these but had trouble reading the ancient Kufic letters, lovingly created in zellij.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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Some -- like the nine bricks with cuneiform inscriptions of ancient Sumerian princes, or the early Kufic gravestones from the era following the death of the Prophet Mohammed -- would be of interest mainly to specialists.
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Rachid, with an eye for detail, was immediately taken with these but had trouble reading the ancient Kufic letters, lovingly created in zellij.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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Rachid, with an eye for detail, was immediately taken with these but had trouble reading the ancient Kufic letters, lovingly created in zellij.
A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007
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Through the architectural use of Kufic script, a building becomes a text.
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* Islam is very focused on text; and this has contributed to the development of some stunningly beautiful calligraphic arts, of which the most interesting is Kufic script.
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It includes sections on script styles, calligraphy, objects with writing I particularly like the Earthenware bowl with Kufic inscription, and others; Islam in China and the Malay Peninsula includes an amazing example of Arabic calligraphy done in Chinese style, with a brush.
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They contain, according to him, mostly proper names, with devotional formulae, similar to those of the Sinaitic inscriptions and the Kufic and later epigraphs which we discovered.
The Land of Midian 2003
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