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presentation at Firestarter#2 November 2010Kufi Squares by Richard Azlan Abaswatch the presentation at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toKn2VqlKoI&feature=player_embedded#at=239
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Kufi Squares
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• Kufi is a font• It was the first font that the Quran was
documented• Kufi --- from Kufa in Iraq
Kufi also Kufic
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/natlang/arabic/kufic/wa-kufic.jpg
Courtesy of Mamoun Sakkal
The inception of square kufic derived from the contact between Islam and China around a thousand years ago. A simple adaptation of Arabic kufic script into the mold of Chinese seal script; created a medium that is unique to human civilization; a perpetually modern medium of representing the divine word.
http://www.kufic.info/img/ghazanseal.png
Square Kufic in ArchitectureSquare Kufic in architectural settings by country.
http://www.kufic.info/architecture/architecture.htm
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ka2BI5qyVAU/Rj7v76vME_I/AAAAAAAABNk/0ymVqC5109k/s400/MI%234.JPG/_Ka2BI5qyVAU/Rj7v76vME_I/AAAAAAAABNk/0ymVqC5109k/s400/MI%25234.JPG
Moulay IdrisVolubilisMorocco
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3076/3162936393_e68520bfca_m.jpg
Minaret, Ulugbek Medressa, Registan, Samarkand
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/193599412_7cf95b8c7f_m.jpg
Tripoli mosque, Liban
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1174/3167148784_190570831e_m.jpg
Ribbed dome and square kufic tiling, Gur-e Amir mausoleum, Samarkand
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/128/352643197_79ed6157d0.jpg?v=0
Panel, al Mu'ayyad mosque (1415-22)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1100/865263164_0276a7efb7_m.jpg
Tile and brick mosaic calligraphy, Jameh Mosque, Esfahan
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2074/2064208562_bfb25fbc14_m.jpg
kufic calligraphy, isfahan, iran photographer "SEIER+SEIER"
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/MWEBimages/islamic_mm/full/M76_174_151.jpg
Iran or Central AsiaStone Slab with Calligraphy, late 14th-early 15th centuryStone, Stone, 5 9/16 x 14 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. (14.13 x 37.47 x 6.35 cm)
14th century Ilkhanid silver coin with square kufic Kalima
http://www.kufic.info/img/ilkhanid.png
the world's first stain glass kufi square
the world's first lego kufic square
http://charlescalixto.com/indexhibit/200801/kufic-square-calligraphy/
21.01.2008 - Kufic Square Calligraphyan interesting parallel between an obscure form of arabic calligraphy and the complex barcode system utilized in japan.both images say the following:
الَّل$ه (َح(د َأ $ه الَّل ُه-َو( ُق-ْل/ الرَحيم الرَحمن 8ه7 الَّل 7 م 7ْس/ ِب(َح(د َأ -ُف-َو;ا ُك $ه- ل -ن (ُك َي (م/ َو(ل (د/ -َول َي (م/ َو(ل 7د/ (َّل َي (م/ ل الَّص$م(د
http://www.sakkal.com/instrctn/images/sq_kufi_alphabet.jpg
SQUARE KUFI CALLIGRAPHY INSTRUCTIONSquare Kufi Alphabet Instructor: Mamoun Sakkal
http://www.kufic.info/kuficscript.htm
http://www.sakkal.com/squarekufi/instruction/SqKufi02.gif
How to design Square Designs in Square Kufi Instructor: Mamoun Sakkal
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