[HN Gopher] The Diversity of Arabic Scripts
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The Diversity of Arabic Scripts
Author : drdee
Score : 72 points
Date : 2023-03-27 03:39 UTC (19 hours ago)
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| sn_master wrote:
| What always bugged me is most Westerners who put Arabic tattoos
| use the ugliest possible "typewriter" script, the one equivalent
| to Consolas for English, rather than any of the countless
| artistic ones.
| aljgz wrote:
| Nasta`liq is a fabulous calligraphic style. Artists have
| perfected it and they sometimes make illustrations like [0]. This
| translates to: "I wish for such a dance in the center of the
| ring".
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| This is a second part of a verse from Rumi in Persian. The
| complete verse is: "Wine glass in one hand and sweetheart's hear
| in another .. I wish for such a dance in the center of the ring"
|
| [0] https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/7248049389534044/
| ahoya wrote:
| I can't find this poem, can you give me another reference
| please?
| yunruse wrote:
| My favourite script has to be Square Kufic [0]. The pixel-like
| design is abstract and utterly gorgeous on architecture.
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kufic#Square_Kufic
| smcl wrote:
| As a non-Arabic-reader it looks _really_ stylish to me - like
| on the Iraqi flag
| propagandist wrote:
| That's no accident.
|
| It's named for the city of Kufa in modern-day Iraq.
| dendrite9 wrote:
| Wow. Those patterns never clicked as writing to me. The Shahada
| example is so cool.
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