I always enjoyed the cover of Jeff Erickson‘s <i>Algorithms</i> book, which is <i>al-Khwarizmi</i> in this style.<p><a href="https://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/" rel="nofollow">https://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/</a><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi</a>
Mardin Artuklu University logo is in this style: <a href="http://www.artuklu.edu.tr" rel="nofollow">http://www.artuklu.edu.tr</a><p>If you look closely, you should be able to see "Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi" in the labyrinth.
Worth noting that Kufi writing originates from the region of Kufa in modern-day Iraq, also the source of the Kufiyyeh headdress.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kufa" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kufa</a>
Just to clarify I don’t think that first image is Kufic script, whereas the second is the shahada (author calls it the shada)<p>I’m not sure about the 2 kinds of scripts claim, I think there are a few more than that.
There's some good examples on wikipedia as well: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/</a><p>As someone with zero exposure to Kufic script before today, some of those images, and particular the circle ones in the original article, remind me of the London Underground "Labyrinth" mazes <a href="https://www.tubeopedia.co.uk/labyrinth-locations" rel="nofollow">https://www.tubeopedia.co.uk/labyrinth-locations</a>
Such abstraction can be used to obfuscate information. Could they contain and have contained hidden messages? Hushed passwords to enter secret areas of the temples hidden in plain sight?
I had the idea of making a QR code generator that embeds those "Kufi" "scripts" but never got to do it. Now with LLM image generators it's pretty feasible
This one is not Kufic, but it's my favorite:<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/G9RAzGv" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/G9RAzGv</a>