Kufic is the earliest form of Arabic script ... This example, taken from Safavid Isfahan, also contains the words “(Oh) Allah” (at center) and “Ali” (on the right and left, in blue ...

Two years ago, researchers re-examined a silver ring from a female tomb at Birka and found the phrase "for Allah" inscribed on the stone. Again the text was Kufic, developed in the Iraqi town of ...

As well as Allah, Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, is also mentioned in the text. Kufic characters were commonly found during the Viking Age in mosaics on burial ...

Before Muhammad, Arabic was barely a written language at all, but now there was of course a vital need to record God's words accurately, and so the first developed Arabic script - the "kufic ...

Malaysia's iconic Christ Church in the city of Malacca Malaysia's high court has overturned a policy banning Christians from using the word "Allah" to refer to God, the latest in a decades-long ...

The protruding headers form a pattern of Arabic Kufic calligraphy that reads "say he is God (the) one". Social and environmental sustainability were central to the competition-winning scheme and have ...

Before Muhammad, Arabic was barely a written language at all, but now there was of course a vital need to record God's words accurately, and so the first developed Arabic script - the "kufic ...