A decorative Quran leaf in Maghribi script on vellum from al-Andalus, Islamic Spain circa 1250-80 placing this firmly at the beginning of the Nasrid dynasty. The Arabic manuscript has 7 lines to each page written in brown ink with diacritics and vowel points in red, green and blue, and gold roundels marking the verses.
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Maghrebi script or Maghribi script (Arabic: الخط المغربي) refers to a family of Arabic scripts that developed in the Maghreb (North Africa), al-Andalus (Iberia), and Biled as-Sudan (the West African Sahel). The script is directly derived from the Kufic script and is characterized by rounded letter forms, extended horizontal features, and final open curves below the baseline. For centuries, Maghrebi script was used to write Arabic manuscripts and record Andalusi and Moroccan literature, whether in Classical Arabic or Maghrebi Arabic languages.
Diacritics are glyphs or marks added to the letter whilst vowel points are marks added to indicate the vowels in Arabic or Hebrew languages.
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