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Quadratkufi, Isfahan 15./16. Century, Koran - Sura 112 al-Iḫlāṣ

Quadratkufi , also called Bannai , is a font used in Islamic calligraphy . It is mainly used in Iran for building inscriptions.

It is a kind of angular Kufi - font , characterized by geometric shapes such as squares , diamonds , rectangles , parallel and distinguished intersecting lines. The basis of the Bannai script is the horizontal and vertical direction of the lines, which always have the same thickness and completely fill the geometric shape.

The new Iranian national flag shows the words Allahu Akbar in this form.

Individual evidence

  1. Ḥabībollāh Fażāʾelī: Aṭlas-e Ḫaṭṭ - Taḥqīq dar Ḫuṭūṭ-e Islāmī . Isfahan 1972, p. 166 (Persian).
  2. ^ Adolf Grohmann: Arabian palaeography . 2: The writing, the lapidary writing. Böhlau, Graz 1971 (Plate XXIX).