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Maghrebi script or Maghribi script or Maghrebi Arabic script (Arabic: الخط المغربي) refers to a loosely related family of Arabic scripts that developed in the Maghreb (North Africa), al-Andalus , and Bilad as-Sudan (the West African Sahel).
Example of Maghribi script in a Qur'anic manuscript. The Maghribi script, developed from Kufic in the Maghreb and al-Andalus, was the standard system for handwriting in Morocco. Most manuscripts are written in the Andalusi script, a school of Maghribi; however, Berber writing systems were commonly used in southern parts of the Kingdom.
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The Nabataean script was used to write down the Nabataean Aramaic language, which was originally derived from Imperial Aramaic. Over the centuries, the Nabataean script evolved into a Nabataean Arabic intermediary, and this script evolved into Paleo-Arabic, which is when the Arabic script entered its recognizably current form in the pre-Islamic ...
Maghrebi Arabic (Arabic: اللَّهْجَة الْمَغارِبِيَّة, romanized: al-lahja l-maghāribiyya, lit. 'Western Arabic' as opposed to Eastern or Mashriqi Arabic), often known as ad-Dārija [a] (Arabic: الدارجة, meaning 'common/everyday [dialect]') [2] to differentiate it from Literary Arabic, [3] is a vernacular Arabic dialect continuum spoken in the Maghreb.
Ibn Said al-Maghribi wrote or compiled 'at least forty works on various branches of knowledge'. [8]Ibn Said's best known achievement was the completion of the fifteen-volume al-Mughrib fī ḥulā l-Maghrib ('The Extraordinary Book on the Adornments of the West'), which had been started over a century before by Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥijārī (1106–55) at the behest of Ibn Said's great ...
Calligraphic fragment with text executed in maghribi script. It includes verses 68-69 of the 5th chapter of the Qur'an entitled al-Ma'idah (The Table). Date:
The literature of al-Andalus, also known as Andalusi literature (Arabic: الأدب الأندلسي, al-adab al-andalusī), [1] [2] was produced in al-Andalus, or Islamic Iberia, from the Muslim conquest in 711 to either the Catholic conquest of Granada in 1492 or the expulsion of the Moors ending in 1614.