Eastern Africa & Indian Ocean – Items
Codex, Faza, 1829, Naskh with Thuluth elements
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Cite
APA
Zulfikar Hirji, . (n.d.). Codex, Faza, 1829, Naskh with Thuluth elements (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3842
Chicago
Zulfikar Hirji. n.d. “Codex, Faza, 1829, Naskh with Thuluth elements.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3842
MLA
Zulfikar Hirji. Codex, Faza, 1829, Naskh With Thuluth Elements, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3842
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Kenya_ZH_03
- Author
- Zulfikar Hirji
- Contributor(s)
- Nuria Garcia Masip
- Date
- 2 Muharram, 1245 H.
- July 4, 1829
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Kenya, Lamu Archipelago, Pate Island, Faza
- Present Location
- Collection of Imam Al Din Al-Salimi Library, Bidiya (Oman). Ms. AS:008.
- Website Link
- https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667312/
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Quran
- Signature
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Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Karīm b. al-Qāḍī ʿUmar b. al-QāḍīMūsa b. Maḥmūd b. Mūsā b. Aḥmad b.Mūsā b. Aḥmad
b. Mūsā b. Awṣa[?] b. Mūsā b. Awṣa[?] b. Mūsā b. Muḥammad b. Mūsā b. Akīl b. Aḥmad b. Muʿallim b. ʿAlī al-Nawfalī - Signature Role
- copyist
- Remarks (General Identification)
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Volume one of a four-volume Quran: al-Ḥamd to al-Anʿām
(Q. 1–6) - Type of Object
- manuscript\codex
- Size (of the object)
- 31 x 21 cm
- Ruling (Manuscript)
- 9 lines
- Technique
- written
- Remarks (Support)
- Restored.
- Bibliography
- Hirji, Zulfikar. “A Corpus of Illuminated Qurʾāns from Coastal East Africa.” Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 14, nos. 2–4 (2023): 356–95.
- Hirji, Zulfikar A. “The Faza Qur’an: Three Nineteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscripts from Coastal East Africa.” Journal of Qur’anic Studies 24, no. 2 (2022): 21–47.
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- partial stacking of characters
- Character Spacing
- regular spaces between characters
- Presence of Elongation
- frequent
- Length of Elongation
- varied length of elongations
- Ligature
- Abusive - rā' and hā' / tāʾ marbūṭa
- Abusive - wāw and hā' / tāʾ marbūṭa
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- short stroke at an angle
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - short curvilinear tail
- wāw - long curvilinear tail ending in hairline
- wāw - rounded tail
- mīm descenders
- mīm - short curvilinear tail
- mīm - vertical downstroke
- mīm - long flattened, tapered tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- elongated curvilinear deep bowl
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - crescent bowl
- long plunging bowl
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward oblique stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - elongated curvilinear flattened ascending bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial slightly inclined to left
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- initial / medial double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- medial v-shape with bottom closed loop towards the right
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- soft triangular head
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- wide inverted triangle
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small ‘ain
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- short denticles
Other
- additional characteristics
- Final dāl / dhāl crescent tail
- final dhāl with point inside tail
- Certain letters such as the loop for jīm /khā’/hā’ and the inside of kāf are filled in red
- Lām/’alif two almost parallel strokes
- The word Allah is consistently written in red