Bannai script

Bannai script, Qeysarie Gate, Isfahan, 17th century. with a poem from the introductory of the Saadi's Gulistan
Bannai, Isfahan 15th/16th century, Koran-Sura 112 al-Ikhlāṣ

Bannai is a form of Islamic calligraphy. It is a kind of angular Kufic script, which has geometric forms like square, rhombus, rectangular, parallel and crossed lines. It was used primarily in Iran in building inscriptions. The foundation of Bannai is the horizontal and vertical directions of the lines, which have equal thickness and completely fill the geometrical form.

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References

  1. ↑ Ḥabībollāh Fażāʾelī (1971), Aṭlas-e Ḫaṭṭ: Taḥqīq dar Ḫuṭūṭ-e Islāmī (in Persian), Isfahan, p. 166{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ↑ Adolf Grohmann (1971), Arabische Paläographie (in German), vol. 2: Das Schriftwesen, die Lapidarschrift, Graz: Böhlau, Tafel XXIX
  3. ↑ Degeorge, Gerard; Porter, Yves (2002). The Art of the Islamic Tile. Flammarion.