Hijazi

Hijazi script is the collective name for a number of early Arabic scripts that developed in the Hejaz region of the Arabian peninsula, which includes the cities of Mecca and Medina. This type of script was already in use at the time of the emergence of Islam. It was one of the earliest scripts, along with Mashq and Kufic. The script does not yet contain any dots or diacritical marks: only the consonants are represented.

Ma'il (="sloping") script is a calligraphic Hijazi script found in a number of the earliest Qur'anic manuscripts. The two terms are often used interchangeably.

See also

* Arabic calligraphy

External links

* [http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Mss/ms2165.html British Library MS. Or. 2165] Early Qur'anic manuscript written in Ma'il script, 7th or 8th century CE
* [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/meccaquran.html British Library MS. Or. 2165] (British Library)
* [http://www.usna.edu/Users/humss/bwheeler/quran/maili.html Ma'il manuscript from the Tareq Rajab Museum in Kuwait] .
* [http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Mss/yem1b.html Folio in an italic Hijazi script] from the discoveries at the Great Mosque, Sanaa
* [http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Mss/VaAr1605.html Fragment in a Makkan Hijazi script] from the Vatican library