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Jul 26, 2008
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Kufic

Ancient Arabic letters; so called from Kufa, a town in the pashalic of Bagdad, noted for expert copyists of the ancient Arabic MSS.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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