Kūfic script

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Kūfic script: Quṭb Mīnār

Early Kūfic book style, leaf from a Qurʾān, 8th or 9th century; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Figure 214: Bottle of enamelled and gilt glass decorated withChinese motifs and an inscription in Kufic lettering praising anunknown sultan, Syrian, Mamluk period, c. 1300. In the Victoria andAlbert M

Kūfic script. Double page opening of a Qurʾān from Syria, 9th century ad. In the collection of R. Pinder-Wilson.

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Kūfic script

Kūfic script

Kūfic script, double folio from the Qurʾān, ink on parchment, Abbasid caliphate,...

Photograph by Howard Cheng. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky, M.73.5.497

Kūfic script: Quṭb Mīnār

Kūfic script: Quṭb Mīnār

Inscriptions in Kūfic script on the Quṭb Mīnār tower, Delhi.

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Early Kūfic book style, leaf from a Qurʾān, 8th or 9th century; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Early Kūfic book style, leaf from a Qurʾān, 8th or 9th century; in the Freer Gallery...

Courtesy of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Figure 214: Bottle of enamelled and gilt glass decorated withChinese motifs and an inscription in Kufic lettering praising anunknown sultan, Syrian, Mamluk period, c. 1300. In the Victoria andAlbert M

Figure 214: Bottle of enamelled and gilt glass decorated withChinese motifs and an...

Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Kūfic script. Double page opening of a Qurʾān from Syria, 9th century ad. In the collection of R. Pinder-Wilson.

Kūfic script. Double page opening of a Qurʾān from Syria, 9th century ad....

Courtesy of R. Pinder-Wilson

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