Manuscripts and calligraphies

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Bismi Allah:
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Name of the Allah:
[1] Calligraphy of Sheikh Shukri Lahafi, Damascus
[2] Maghribi
[3] Magribi-Idrisi
[4] Turkish hatt
[5] Kufi style
[6] In Alhambra, Spain
[7] In Rohtas Fort, Pakistan
[8] Allah - Muhammad
[8] Calligrahy of clowds

Name of the Prophet (s):
[1] Muhammad - blue marble (Mohamed Zakarya)
[2] Muhammad-Mahmud-Ahmad - Turkish
[3] Muhammad - Kufi geometric
[4] Ahmad - Kufi geometric
[5] Door to Haram in Makka
[6] Muhammad - ' Ali - Fatima - Hasan _ Husayn, peace be upon them

La ilaha illa Allah:
[1] [2] [3] [4]

Various calligraphies:
[1] La hawla wa la quwwata illa biAllah - Turkish
[2] Fa Allah khayru hafizhan - by Osman Özçay'in
[3] Inna Rabbi hafizh - Farisi on marble
[4] Wa 3ala Allah falyatawakkalu al-muatawilun - with a hadith on the excellence of Aisha (r)cal_yasin_aqsa
[5] Inna Allah jamil yuhibbu al-jamal
[6] Rabbi zidni 3ilma
[7] Rabbi ishrah li sadri

Quranic Suras
[1] Sura al-Fatiha
[2] Sura al-Fatiha
[3] Sura al-Ikhlas
[4] Sura Takathur
[5] Sura Mayram Kaf-Ha-Ya-3ayn-Sad - from Qandalusi's Qur'an
[6] Sura al-Ikhlas

Quranic Ayat
[1] Ala bidhikri Allah tatma'inna al-qulub
[2] La'in shakartum
[3] Wa idha sa'alaka 3badi
[4] Amana-al-Rasul
[5] Inna Allah wa Mala'ikatahu

Quran manuscripts
collected by Prof. B. Wheeler
[1] Ma‘ili, 1st century H
[2] Kufi, 2nd century H
[3] Yaquti, 681 H
[4] Naskh, 7th century H
[5] Mamluk, 7th century H
[6] Thuluth, 8th century H
[7] Naskh and Thuluth, 8th century
[8] Thuluth, 710 H
[9] Bihari, 8th century H
[10] Andalusian, 4th century H
[11] Bihari, 11th century H
[12] Maghrabi , 11-12th centuries
[13] Naskh with Taliq in margins, 1123 H
[14] Naskh daqiq, 12th century H
[15] Diwani Jali, Ottoman period
[16] Andalusian, 6th century H
[17] Sini, 12th century H
[18] Maghribi, 13th century H
[19] Quran roll, Nastaliq script dated 12th century H
[19] Naskh manuscript dated to 800 H

More Quranic manuscripts
[1] Pink Andalusian, 7th century H
[2] Thuluthi from Yaman, 8th century H
[3] Interesting Mashq, North Africa 2nd century H
[4] Golden Kufi script, 2nd century H
[5] From Qandalusi's Qur'an, 14th century H.
[6] Kufi
[7] Quranic inscription on al-Aqsa mosque
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Qasida Burda
[1] Manuscript
[2] Andalusian
[3] Damascus, 9th century H, with takhmis
[4] similar
[5] Mamluk, Syria 10th century H
[6] Thuluth, 10th century H
[7] Turkish-Persian-Arabic, dated 1207 H.
[8] Manuscript kept in St. Petersburg
[9] Burda on tiles in Darwishiyya mosque, Damascus
[10] Qasida Burda in Chinese

Dalail al-Khayrat
[1] Andalusian manuscript
[2] Cover illustration 11th century H.
[3] Front cover of Urdu translation

Al-Hilya
[1] beige
[2] green
[3] wooden
[4] Hafizh Osman, Turkey
[5] Mustafa Rakim, Turkey
[6] Kazasker Mustafa Izzet, Turkey
[7] Hanz Vahdeti, Turkey
[8] Mohamed Zakariya
Desription of the Hilya (external link)

Other manuscirpts:
[1] Diwan Ibn Farid
[2] Sharh of Ibn al-Musannif of Ibn Maliks Alfiyya
[3] Late Ottoman lithography of al-Ajurumiyya


Caligraphies of Sayyid Hadi Hasan
[1] Poem of Berelwi
[2] Poem of Muhammad Iqbal
[3] Milad sa`id
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