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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).
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.
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.
Text and meaning. A mujawwad Qur'an recitation of Surah Al-Ikhlas. Al-Ikhlas in Maghribi script, 18th Century. Text and transliteration Hafs from ...
Later Maghribi writers repeated the definition of Ibn Khaldun, with a few variations in details. [15] The term Maghrib is used in opposition to Mashriq in a sense near to that which it had in medieval times, but it also denotes simply Morocco when the full al-Maghrib al-Aqsa is abbreviated.
Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi wrote Al-Mughrib fī ḥulā l-Maghrib citing much of what was published in the field beforehand. [ 5 ] Ibn Sahib al-Salat wrote al-Mann bi ʾl-imāma ʿala ʾmustaḍʿafīn bi-an jaʿalahum Allāh al-aʿimma wa-jaʿalahum al-wārithīn , although only the second volume survives, covering the years 1159–1172.
Maghrebis were known in ancient and medieval times as the Roman Africans or Moors.The word Moor is of Phoenician origin. [14] The etymology of the word can be traced back to the Phoenician term Mahurin, meaning "Westerners", from which the ancient Greeks derive Mauro, and from which Latin derives Mauri.
Early inscriptions were generally written in the Kufic script, a style where letters were written with straight lines and had fewer flourishes. [ 1 ] [ 17 ] : 38 At a slightly later period, mainly in the 11th century, Kufic letters were enhanced with ornamentation, particularly to fill the empty spaces that were usually present above the letters.