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Minbar, Calicut, 1683, Other
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APA
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath, . (n.d.). Minbar, Calicut, 1683, Other (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3904
Chicago
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. n.d. “Minbar, Calicut, 1683, Other.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3904
MLA
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath. Minbar, Calicut, 1683, Other, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3904
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- India_MSC_14
- Date
- 1094 H.
- 1683
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- India, Kerala State, Calicut, Jāmi of Calicut
- Remarks (Place of Production)
- Jāmi of Calicut one of ealiest dated mosque from Malabar.
- Present Location
- Jami of Calicut, Kuttichira (Calicut)
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Foundation inscription
- Nature of the Text
- Reference for poetry verses
- Text Content
- جزاه اله العرش خير جزائه ....وان منبر لله جدد وشيد....بعام دصغ من صقر وبلجود والتقي.... شيخ ابن ابراهيم شهير بناوخدا...هداه وفقه واننه اته رسوله....واسكنه اعلي الجنان مخلدا
- Color of the Script
- black
- Type of Object
- object\minbar
- Writing Surface
- wood
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- Aprox 75 cm
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 3
- Technique
- carved / bas-relief - flat relief
- Instrument
- chisel
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- rectangular
- Line of Writing
- broken
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- partial stacking of characters
- Character Spacing
- irregular spaces between characters
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- round dot
Ascenders
- Kāf Ascenders
- no top arm and superscript kāf
Descenders
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - short curvilinear tail
- rā'/zā' - long flattened, tapered tail
- rā'/zā' - s-shaped
- mīm descenders
- short diagonal to left
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - crescent bowl
- deep bowl left open
- wide deep bowl
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- ascending bowl
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
- medial short pointed denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial rounded double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- final s-shaped (muḥdawdibah)
- isolated one-eyed triangular (murabba'ah)
- medial circle with horizontal line
- mīm counters
- circular head
vocalization and diacritics
- hamza vocalization and diacritics
- small ‘ain
- sukūn vocalization and diacritics
- circle
- shadda vocalization and diacritics
- wide denticles
- ihmāl vocalization and diacritics
- subscript miniature letter for hā’/ ʿayn/ sīn / sād / ṭa