Naskhi

A great discovery has been lately made which upsets all our old ideas of Cufic, etc.Mr. Löytved of Bayrut has found, amongst the Hauranic inscriptions, one in pure Naskhi, dating A.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Mss. and having, according to Richardson, “the same analogy to the Naskhi as our Italic has to the Roman.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Somali and other tongues in this part of Eastern Africa, it appears to be partly Arabic in etymology and grammar: the Semitic scion being grafted upon an indigenous root: the frequent recurrence of the guttural kh renders it harsh and unpleasant, and it contains no literature except songs and tales, which are written in the modern Naskhi character.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

Bawwab, of Ibn Hilal, and of Yakut are for Naskhi.

Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature F. F. Arbuthnot 1867

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.D.

Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature F. F. Arbuthnot 1867

Like the Somali and other tongues in this part of Eastern Africa, it appears to be partly Arabic in etymology and grammar: the Semitic scion being grafted upon an indigenous root: the frequent recurrence of the guttural _kh_ renders it harsh and unpleasant, and it contains no literature except songs and tales, which are written in the modern Naskhi character.

First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

A great discovery has been lately made which upsets all our old ideas of Cufic, etc.Mr. Löytved of Bayrut has found, amongst the Hauranic inscriptions, one in pure Naskhi, dating A.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Other hands are: the Ta'alík; hanging or oblique, used for finer MSS. and having, according to Richardson, "the same analogy to the Naskhi as our Italic has to the Roman."

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Again, I have consulted Prof. Palmer's work, and the publications of the Palæographical Society (p. 184); but I nowhere find the proofs that the Naskhi character (vol.i. 128) so long preceded the Cufic which, amongst vulgar Moslems, is looked upon like black letter in Europe.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Books at Harar are mostly antiques, copyists being exceedingly rare, and the square massive character is more like Cufic with diacritical points, than the graceful modern Naskhi.

First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855