Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Cufic

CUFIC, pertaining to Cufa, a town founded by Omar I., in A. D. 637, the ruins of the Parthian capital Ctesiphon having been largely used for the purpose; also relating to inscriptions and coins bearing the kinji or Cufic writing, or old Arabic.

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