Moroccan Calligrapher Underlines Preserving Maghrebi Script
Abdul Aziz Mujib made the remark on the sidelines of an exhibition of Quran manuscripts and other Quranic and religious books, saying Quranic calligraphy has a significant position in the history of Morocco’s culture and civilization.
He said the Maghrebi script and using it in Quranic calligraphy should be taught to the youth in order to preserve it for future generations.
Maghrebi script or Maghribi script refers to a loosely related family of Arabic scripts that developed in the Maghreb (North Africa), al-Andalus (Iberia), and Bilad as-Sudan (the West African Sahel). Maghrebi script is directly derived from the Kufic script and is traditionally written with a pointed tip, producing a line of even thickness.
The script is characterized by rounded letter forms, extended horizontal features, and final open curves below the baseline.
For centuries, Maghrebi script was used to write Arabic manuscripts and record Andalusi and Moroccan literature, whether in Classical Arabic, Maghrebi Arabic, or Amazigh languages.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Abdul Aziz Mujib said a Mus’haf (copy of Quran) has been prepared by a number of Moroccan calligraphers.
He said it took them six months to calligraph the copy in Mabsout Maghrebi script based on the Warsh from Nafi narration.
He went on to describe the contemporary era as a bright period in history in terms of support for the Quranic and Islamic art of calligraphy.
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