#kufic

[panicinthestudio]

Speaking Object: Bowl with Arabic Inscription, November 3, 2022

Listen to the proverb on this epigraphic slip-painted bowl. The Speaking Object project gives voice to inscribed works of art from the Islamic world.

The Met

Bowl with Arabic Inscription, 10th century

From Iran, Nishapur

Earthenware; white slip with black-slip decoration under transparent glaze

H. 7 in. (17.8 cm), Diam. 18 in. (45.7 cm)

The calligraphic decoration on this bowl reads "Planning before work protects you from regret; prosperity and peace," but the shortening, bending, and elongation of the letters has transformed the words into abstract motifs of tremendous power. With its monumental presence and the artful arrangement of its letters, in which vertical flourishes punctuate the horizontal flow of the words at rhythmic intervals, this bowl stands out among the many other inscribed ceramics of the same period.

Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

#arabic #kufic #Iranian #Nishapur #earthenware #language #Persian #art #art history #abstract #minimalism #The Met #Metropolitan Museum of Art #ceramic

[farsi-calligraphy]

"If you want light, you must light a fire" -- اگر نور خواهى بايست آتش روشن کني -- This line of poetry is often attributed to Mowlana Rumi. Whether it belongs to the official works of the poet or not, the sentiment seems consistent. On the one hand it is a very practical statement. You need some light to look for something? Then strike a match, light a candle, look around! You want some light on your life? Eat food, breathe air, absorb some energy from the world around you. All of this lights the fire of your physical, emotional and spiritual being. You look around. The sun is shining! There is light! The ornate knotted Kufic style was designed to be continuous when inked as an armband tattoo. Persian calligraphy by S J Thomas. www.palmstone.com

#persiantattoo rumi lightafire tattoodesign calligraphy persiancalligraphy farsicalligraphy tattoo braidedkufic kufic #persian tattoo #rumi #light a fire #light #noor #tattoo design #kufic #calligraphy #kufic calligraphy #braided kufic

[zsecgzowuq]

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[muhammadkaddoura]

Kaddoura Calligraphy Signature Specifically for the Kufic Scripts and also used with some chinese scripts. #kufi #kufic #kaddoura #kaddouracalligraphy #kaddouralegacy #murabba #traditional #custom #hat #hattat #art #arte #arabiccalligraphy#artgallery #Islam #islamicart #signature https://www.instagram.com/p/ChckOY-pk24/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#kufi #kufic #kaddoura #kaddouracalligraphy #kaddouralegacy #murabba #traditional #custom #hat #hattat #art #arte #arabiccalligraphy #artgallery #islam #islamicart #signature

[clarenecessities]

took a stab at designing adora’s tattoo from @n7punk‘s OtW series (& forevermore) despite first ones’ language being the worst script in the world bc unfortunately it does make for a pretty dope tattoo

except like. alright. full disclosure. i remembered the words wrong and i wrote ‘to the end’ instead of ‘until the end’ and i tried fixing it like three different ways but none of them look as good. so. please accept this almost-fic-canon-compliant fanart with a grain of salt

#clare's art #she ra #first ones' language #honestly still not sold on this... originally i was doing a radial design but i was doing some research on calligraphy #and square kufic seemed like. really really space efficient. which was the big challenge #so i might do another one of these in a different style once i get my shit together

[anintelligentoctopus]

You can do some super interesting things with typefaces in Arabic/Perso-Arabic script, but my god, I Cannot read it

#please. i struggle enough w calligraphy and kufic #pointless post

[paulpingminho]

#calligraphy #Quran #Kufic script #Islam #Lahore Museum #Lahore #Pakistan

[islamicwall]

4 Quls Calligraphy, Kufic Islamic Wall Art , Islamic Four Quls in Arabic – islamicwalldecors

The best 4 Quls calligraphy, 4 quls kufic islamic wall art, Four quls printable calligraphy for home decor In Kufi Script & Thuluth Script.

#four Quls #4quls calligraphy #4 Quls calligraphy #4 quls kufic islamic wall art

[museum-of-artifacts]

A ring found in Birka, Sweden, made in the 9th century. Made from silver and set with a coloured glass stone, it is inscribed with Arabic Kufic writing reading "for/to Allah". It is the only ring found at a Scandinavian archaeological site with Arabic writing

Blog: https://artifactsmuseumhistory.blogspot.com

[kaijuno]

This ring was discovered on a woman buried around 1,200 years ago in Birka, an ancient Viking city located 30 km (19 miles) west of contemporary Stockholm, Sweden. What sets this ring apart is the inscription "for Allah" in Kufic Arabic, commonly used between the 8th and 10th centuries. It provides evidence of direct contact between Vikings and the Abbasid Caliphate, the third caliphate succeeding the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

[apollos-olives]

i saw you did graphic design for a little bit and like holy shit arabic calligraphy art & typography design slaps so hard :O do you have any favorites?

kufic vaguely looks like chinese seals too :O

hoping for a free palestine and a destigmatization of arab culture in the west!

omg i ADORE these designs. unfortunately i don't have a favorite but these are so lovely!! i like the second one a lot. thank you for showing me!

[thinkingimages]

glass beaker with designs of birds, with the Kufic inscription 'perpetual blessing' in Arabic

Nishapur, Iran, 800-1000 AD @vamuseum via @edmunddewaal

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Kufic style of Arabic patterns - TOMB OF ILTUTMISH - Mehrauli, New Delhi, INDIA

#arabic #architecture #arquitectura #arabe #tomb #tumba #iltutmish #mehrauli #new delhi #nueva delhi #india #asia

[tanadrin]

Submitted for your vexillological critique: the flags of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

of these, Iraq is my runaway favorite, because the kufic style of calligraphy the Iraqi flag uses is really well-suited to display purposes. it just looks cool as hell. plus, "god is greatest" is nice and short as mottoes go. it's the kind of thing that works on a flag, if you're going to put text on it. i wouldn't, personally, but if you're going to, Iraq does it very well. red-white-black is a pretty good tricolor combination, and i like the nod to pan-Arab unity that it represents.

afghanistan and saudi arabia, by comparison, suck. the shahadah is just too long for a flag! it's not succinct. it's not a motto. it's like putting "Fredericksburg, Virginia: Home of Al Bumbry, 1973 American League Rookie of the Year" on your flag. it doesn't matter what kind of calligraphy you dress it up in--and Arabic does have some really pretty calligraphy--it's just gonna make a mess of your flag.

the recent update to the afghan flag is even worse--putting the name of your country on your flag is an F-tier move, a sign you are either the capital of bumfuck, and nobody has ever heard of you, or your government is on extremely shaky ground and you have to assert that yes, you really do run the country, in a sort of "my flag is causing people to ask a lot of awkward questions already answered by my flag" sort of way. i guess it could be worse--i guess they could have the outline of the country on there too--but it's hard to imagine how.

[friendswithclay]

“Bowl with maxim in Kufic script, Iran, Neyshabur, 10th century AD, underglaze slip painted earthenware Aga Khan Museum Toronto, Canada”

#friendswithclay #ceramics #Iran

[letsgostealthelouvre]

Jewish art is of interest to me so when I saw the magen davids on this object, which is just identified as a “scorpion amulet”, I opened the record; it’s catalogued as coming from the Middle East and is under the aegis of the Department of Islamic Arts, so possibly it’s not Jewish or is only Jewish inspired. I wish we knew; the engraving around the edge, which is Kufic (a decorative Arabic script), apparently simply identifies the stars, the scorpion, and what they say is a feline, though on first blush I thought it was a cow. 

What does it mean? What does it all mean? (Probably if I spoke French or read Kunic I’d know more.)

[ID: A square lead object that looks like it’s pretty small; engraved on the front are three six-pointed stars in the Jewish style, underneath which a cat is facing a large, delicately-carved scorpion which appears to be stinging the cat with its tail. There are two layers of angular kunic script surrounding the image. I am describing them and they are describing the image; this is getting meta very quickly.]

#louvre #classical art #islamic art #jewish art #classical cats