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Updated: May 25, 2025
In later days Arab architects followed the example thus set and pressed the elegant forms of the cufic alphabet into their service with the happiest skill.
Everything was as the wise old man had said it would be, and the prince, who was skilled in all tongues, read the following Cufic inscription: 'O travellers! be it known to you that this column has been set up with its tablet to give true directions about these roads. If a man would pass his life in ease and pleasantness, let him take the right-hand path.
Cufic lore has turned your brain; 'too much learning hath made thee mad." "No, sir, it is no hallucination; there can be no mistake; it is a horrible, awful fact, which I witnessed, which is burned on my memory, and which will haunt my brain as long as I live. I saw him shoot Mr. Dent, and heard all that passed on that dreadful morning. He is doubly criminal is as much the murderer of Mrs.
It lies in the large burial-ground of the Mala, at the declivity of the western chain; is enclosed by a square wall, and presents no objects of curiosity except the tomb-stone, which has a fine inscription in Cufic characters, containing a passage of the Koran from the chapter entitled, Souret el Kursy.
Presto! we are in Bagdad! in the blessed reign ... in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid! I am versed in neither Cufic nor Neskhi lore, but the characters engraved on this ring are said to belong to the former dialect, and to mean 'Peace be with thee, which is, and I believe has been, from time immemorial, the national salutation of the Arabs."
These lumps were covered with tiny black inscriptions in archaic Cufic characters; though what the significance of these might be, the Master could not in that gloom and howling drive of the sand-devils even begin to determine. The whole adornment, as it lay in the Master's palm, typified the Orient.
It was covered with a slab of fine marble, bearing a Cufic inscription, in an older character than the former. The Wahabys broke it, and removed the two pieces, to show their indignation at the visits paid to the receptacles of the bones of mortals, which was, in their estimation, a species of idolatry.
He was very curious to obtain information about America, and made notes of all that I told him, in the quaint character used by the Mughrebbins, or Arabs of the West, which has considerable resemblance to the ancient Cufic. He wishes to join company with me for the journey to Jerusalem, and perhaps I shall accept him. Sunday, April 18.
As the character is not the ancient Cufic, I suspect that the stone was not intended originally to cover this grave: there is no date in the inscription. The Sherif Serour, predecessor of Ghaleb, had the vanity, on his death-bed, to order his family At a short distance from hence, the tomb of Umna, the mother of Mohammed, is shown.
Egyptian, in Hieroglyphics. Greek. Babylonian Cuneiform. Latin. Assyrian Cuneiform. Arabic, in Cufic script. Hebrew, in ancient script. Arabic, in modern script. Hebrew, in square character. The traveller should have had practice in making measured drawings of buildings.
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