Paleography

Sources for Arabic Paleography:

 

Moritz, Bernhard. Arabic Paleography: A Collection of Arabic Texts firm the First Century of the Hidjra till the Year 1000. Publications of the Khedivial …” Bernhard Moritz, Arabic Paleography: A Collection of Texts from the First Century of the Hijra till the Year 1000 (1905)-a munificently produced collection of …”

 

  1. Zayn, Naji al-Din. Bad’I at-khatt al-arabi, Baghdad, 1972. In Arabic: Description based on secondary source.
  2. Zayan, Naji al-Din. Mutawwar al-khatt at-arabi, Baghdad, 1968. In Arabic: Description based on secondary source.
  3. Al-Munadjdjid, S.,Dirasat fi ta’ rikh al-khatt al-‘arabi mundhu
    Badavatihi ila nihayat al-asr al-umawi
    , Beirut, 1972. In French: Description based on secondary source
  4. Munajjid, Salahudin al Dirasat fi ta’rikh al-khatt al`arabi, Salahuddin al-Munajjid (In). Dar al kutub al-jadida, 1972.
    In Arabic: Description based on secondary source.
  5. Al-Munadjdjid, S. Al-kitab al-arabi al-makhut ila ‘I-karn al-‘ashir al-hidajri, i. Al-Namadhidj, Cairo, 1960. In Arabic: Description based on secondary source.
  6. Sourdel-Thomine, J. Development of Arabic script, J. Sourdel-Thomine (In) Cambridge history Of Arabic literature, v. 1, ch. 1. In English: Description based on secondary source.
  7. Krenkow, Fritz. Use of writing for the preservation of ancient Arabic poetry, (In) Ajabnama studies in honour of Edward Granville Browne.– Cambridge, 1922, p. 261-68. In English: Description based on secondary source.
  8. Ettinghausen, Richard. Arabic epigraphy : communication or symbolic affirmation, (In) Near Eastern Numismatics, Iconography, Epigraphy and History, edited by D.K. Kouymjian, 1974, Beirut. In English: Description based on secondary source.
  9. Al-Djabqri, S.Y. Al-Khatt al’arabi wa-tatwwuruhu fil asr al- abbasiyya fil – irak, Baghdad, 1962. In Arabic: Description based on secondary source.
  10. Abbot, Nabia. Arabic paleography, (In) Ars Islamica, 6 (1941), p. 65-104. In English: Description based on secondary source.
  11. Abbott, Nabia. Contribution of Ibn Muklah to the north Arabic script/ Nabia Abbott (In) American journal of Semitic languages and literature, 56 (1939), p. 70-83. In English: Description based on secondary source. (pdf)
  12. Abbott, Nabia. Rise of the North Arabic Script and its kuranic Development, Chicago, 1939. In English: Description based on secondary source.

Nabia Abbott

An Arabic Papyrus in the Oriental Institute Stories of the Prophets, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3. (Jul., 1946), pp. 169-180. (pdf)

A Ninth-Century Fragment of the “Thousand Nights” New Light on the Early History of the Arabian Nights, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3. (Jul., 1949), pp. 129-164. (pdf)

Maghribi Koran Manuscripts of the Seventeenth to the Eighteenth Centuries, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 55, No. 1. (Jan., 1938), pp. 61-65. (pdf)

Two Buyid Coins in the Oriental Institute, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 56, No. 4. (Oct., 1939), pp. 350-364. (pdf)

M. Sprengling

From Persian to Arabic, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 56, No. 2. (Apr., 1939), pp. 175-224. (pdf)

Tonyukuk’s Epitaph: An Old Turkish Masterpiece Introduction, Text, Annotated Scientific Translation, Literary Translation and Transliteration, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 56, No. 1. (Jan., 1939), pp. 1-19. (pdf)

George C. Miles, Early Islamic Inscriptions Near Ta’if in the Hijaz, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4. (Oct., 1948), pp. 236-242. (pdf)

Fred M. Donner, Some Early Arabic Inscriptions from Al-Hanakiyya, Saudi Arabia, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 43, No. 3. (Jul., 1984), pp. 181-208. (pdf)

Eildert Mulder, Keyboard Calligraphy, Saudi Aramco World, July/August 2007 (link)

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