ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY INSTRUCTION
ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY INSTRUCTION
Square Kufi Alphabet
Instructor: Mamoun Sakkal
Figure 1.28 Square Kufic alphabet chart Notes:
Init= Initial form, Medi= Medial form, Fina= Final form, Isol= Isolated form.
Red letters are variations that occur historically but are not desirable because
they create reading ambiguity.
Letters can be turned at right angles, examples are shown for letters D, N,
and W.
For my Ph.D. dissertation Square Kufic Calligraphy in Modern Art,
Transmission and Transformation completed in 2010 at the University of Washington
I have updated the Square Kufic chart as shown above. This is an expansion of
the original chart published on this page as shown below.
NOTES:
1. Square Kufi, Like Early Kufi, is written without dots that distinguish between
the letters that share the same glyph shape.
2. In the top line of this figure, Arabic letters are written from right to
left, while their English equivalents are written from left to right.
3. For a complete listing of the alphabet please check
here
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