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The Kufic script is a style of Arabic script that gained prominence early on as a preferred script for Quran transcription and architectural decoration, and it has since become a reference and an arch
The classical Kufic script of the Blue Quran
Kufic script, 8th or 9th century (Surah 48: 27–28), Quran
Hafsids with ornamental Kufic, Bougie, Algeria, 1249–1276
Geometric Kufic from the Bou Inania Madrasa (Meknes); the text reads: بركة محمد or barakat muḥammad, i.e. "Muhammad's blessing".
Flag of Iran
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The national flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran is a tricolour of equal horizontal bands of green, white, and red, featuring the Islamic emblem in red centred on the white band, and the Takbir writt
Kufic
…constructed prior to the Republican period in Turkey. Also, the current flag of Iraq (2008) also includes a kufic rendition of the takbir. Similarly, the flag of Iran (1980) has the takbir written in white square kufic script a total of 22 times on the fringe of both the green and red bands. Kufic inscriptions were…
Shahdad Standard, ancient bronze flag found at Shahdad, c. 2400 BC. This flag is one of the oldest in human history.
Derafsh Kaviani appearing in a coin of a local Persian dynasty that arose near Persepolis during the Seleucid era.
Safavid flag in the Siege of Shamakhi, 1578. Secaatname (1586)
Flag of Iran carried by the Persian delegation during Mohammad Reza Beg's visit to Versailles, August 1715