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Not sure, I think first image is square or geometric Kufic (sometimes called "Satrancli Kûfi" in Turkish) of course looks quite different than typical Kufic script.

hnlmorg · 2h ago

There's some good examples on wikipedia as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

As someone with zero exposure to Kufic script before today, some of those images, and particular the circle ones in the original article, remind me of the London Underground "Labyrinth" mazes https://www.tubeopedia.co.uk/labyrinth-locations

lproven · 19m ago

> There's some good examples on wikipedia as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

This is not the link you intended...

mohsen1 · 1h ago

I had the idea of making a QR code generator that embeds those "Kufi" "scripts" but never got to do it. Now with LLM image generators it's pretty feasible

Calwestjobs · 1h ago

Greatest shibboleths of them all.

brador · 2h ago

Such abstraction can be used to obfuscate information. Could they contain and have contained hidden messages? Hushed passwords to enter secret areas of the temples hidden in plain sight?

omneity · 15m ago

I always found Kufi to be a form of space-filling curves[0], which was the original purpose: a form of decoration that can fill a surface such as edges around a building[1, 2], without depicting humans in stone, a form of art historically forbidden in Islam due the prevalence of statue idolatry at the time. Hence the prevalence of geometry (Zellij [3]) and calligraphy in areas historically islamic.

Hilbert curves [4] could be the substrate (the coordinate system), and Kufi writing could be indeed encoded information maybe by XORing each point between the curve and the kufi word.

I'm just blabbering around. But it's difficult to disassociate the two in my mind.

0: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/kufi-ayat-kursi-al...

1: https://i0.wp.com/majnouna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/...

2: https://i.pinimg.com/236x/f2/f7/e9/f2f7e99d6bfe75042313adbe6...

3: https://zellige.info/

4: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christoph-Schierz/publi...

ChinstrapCmnty · 15h ago

Very cool!

hawshemi · 1h ago

keep in mind: there is no such thing as "islamic art".

ozirus · 1h ago

do not tell this everywhere. it's a secret.

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Pixels in Islamic art: square Kufic calligraphy

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