The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kufic \Ku"fic\, a. See Cufic.
Cufic \Cu"fic\ (k?`f?k), a. [So called from the town of Cufa, in the province of Bagdad.] Of or pertaining to the older characters of the Arabic language. [Written also Kufic.] [1913 Webster] ||
Wikipedia
Kufic is the oldest calligraphic form of the various Arabic scripts and consists of a modified form of the old Nabataean script. Kufic developed around the end of the 7th century in Kufa, Iraq, from which it takes its name, and other centres.
Usage examples of "kufic".
The characters range between square Kufic, hardly antedating four centuries, and the cursive form of our day.
Around it lay the usual barbarous ruins, mere basements, surrounded by spalled stone: from this place I carried off a portable Kufic inscription.
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 inscriptions were in an ornamental Kufic script, something from the Koran about striking down wrongdoers.
He pointed out multiple backgrounds, borders with formal Kufic lettering, things drawn together in crowded surfaces, a contained and intricate rapture, the desert universe made shapely and complete.
He was standing in a small vestibule, with an intricately modeled ceiling and a beautiful swirl of kufic letters incised around the walls.
Alhambra, and there are some very neat specimens of the Kufic character.
San Eugenio are some remains of an old mosque with Kufic inscriptions, as well as an arch and tomb of elaborate design.
In other words, Ibn Mukla was the first who changed the Kufic into the new Naskhi character, which Ibn Bawwab improved after him by imparting rotundity and clearness to the new letters, and which Ibn Yakut Al-Mausili brought afterwards to the greatest perfection in A.
Both animals and birds are separated by conventional trees, and the latter are enclosed in inscriptions of Kufic characters.
Nor were the mat-makers backward in the proof of their dexterity, since, instead of a common banner, they exhibited a large standard of reeds worked with two lines of writing in Kufic, proclaiming the happy names of Alroy and Schirene.
In the dimness above me, hardly visible now but closely familiar from previous visits, was the Arab stalactite ceiling in carved wood, with its painted scenes and Kufic inscriptions.
These designs featured flowers, animals, and the ornamental Kufic script.
It had a cedar frame with an inlaid fragment of ornamental Kufic script on parchment, late tenth century, Baghdad, priceless.
These were Kufic and Nashki, the first of which emerged in a religious tradition, and the latter in a secular, bureaucratic tradition.