Kufic

Summary

Kufic is a handwriting style^[1]. Kufic ranks in the top 7% of handwriting_style entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (501 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Kufic's image is recorded as Qur'an folio 11th century kufic.jpg^[3].
• Kufic's instance of is recorded as handwriting style^[4].
• Kufa is named after Kufic^[5].
• Kufic's GND ID is recorded as 4361597-1^[6].
• Kufic's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85097066^[7].
• Kufic's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 122282460^[8].
• Kufic's part of is recorded as Arabic calligraphy^[9].
• Kufic's Commons category is recorded as Kufic style^[10].
• Kufic's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 10065^[11].
• Kufic's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05zvkk^[12].
• Kufic's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300194434^[13].
• Kufic's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 492.711^[14].
• Kufic's facet of is recorded as Arabic script^[15].
• Kufic's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[16].
• Kufic's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[17].
• Kufic's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[18].
• Kufic's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921^[19].
• Kufic's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/Kufic-script^[20].
• Kufic's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3928672^[21].
• Kufic's TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID is recorded as kufi^[22].
• Kufic's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007558101205171^[23].
• Kufic's McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID is recorded as K/kufic-writing^[24].
• Kufic's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 27473^[25].
• Kufic's Wellcome Collection concept ID is recorded as u6p3y4t9^[26].
• Kufic's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/1b319f74-96d3-4582-b7ea-23b6efcd26a9^[27].

Why It Matters

Kufic ranks in the top 7% of handwriting_style entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (501 views/month).^[2] Kufic has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] Kufic is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]