Sini (script), the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 29 relations: Arabic alphabet, Arabic calligraphy, Arabic script, Basmala, Calligraphy, China, Chinese calligraphy, Dru C. Gladney, Great Mosque of Xi'an, Hajji, Hui people, Ilkhanate, Islamic calligraphy, Khalili Collections, Ming dynasty, Names of God in Islam, Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang, Ottoman Empire, Qalam, Qing dynasty, Safavid art, Sinicization, Tareq Rajab Museum, Tashkent, The David Collection, Thuluth, Xiao'erjing, Yuan dynasty, Zhengde Emperor.

2. Arabic calligraphy
3. Chinese calligraphy
4. Islamic calligraphy

Arabic alphabet

The Arabic alphabet (الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة), or Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language.

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Arabic calligraphy

Arabic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy based on the Arabic alphabet. Sini (script) and Arabic calligraphy are Islamic calligraphy.

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Arabic script

The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa.

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Basmala

The Basmala (بَسْمَلَة,; also known by its opening words; بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ, "In the name of God"), or Tasmiyyah (Arabic: تَسْمِيَّة), is the titular name of the Islamic phrase "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" (Arabic: بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ). Sini (script) and Basmala are Arabic calligraphy.

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Calligraphy

Calligraphy is a visual art related to writing.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chinese calligraphy

Chinese calligraphy is the writing of Chinese characters as an art form, combining purely visual art and interpretation of the literary meaning. This type of expression has been widely practiced in China and has been generally held in high esteem across East Asia. Calligraphy is considered one of the four most-sought skills and hobbies of ancient Chinese literati, along with playing stringed musical instruments, the board game "Go", and painting.

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Dru C. Gladney

Dru Curtis Gladney (November 3, 1956 – March 17, 2022) was an American anthropologist who was president of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College and a professor of anthropology there.

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Great Mosque of Xi'an

The Great Mosque of Xi'an is one of the largest premodern mosques in China.

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Hajji

Hajji (الحجّي; sometimes spelled Hajjeh, Hadji, Haji, Alhaji, Al-Hadj, Al-Haj or El-Hajj) is an honorific title which is given to a Muslim person who has successfully completed the Hajj to Mecca.

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Hui people

The Hui people (回族|p.

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Ilkhanate

The Ilkhanate or Il-khanate, ruled by the Il-Khans or Ilkhanids (translit), and known to the Mongols as Hülegü Ulus, was a Mongol khanate founded in the southwestern territories of the Mongol Empire.

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Islamic calligraphy

Islamic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy, in the languages which use Arabic alphabet or the alphabets derived from it. Sini (script) and Islamic calligraphy are Arabic calligraphy.

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Khalili Collections

The Khalili Collections are eight distinct art collections assembled by Nasser D. Khalili over five decades.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Names of God in Islam

Names of God in Islam (أَسْمَاءُ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ, "Allah's Beautiful Names") are names attributed to God in Islam by Muslims.

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Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang

Haji Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang (born 1963) is an expert in Islamic calligraphy, specializing in the Sini style which originated from the Chinese Muslim tradition. Sini (script) and Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang are Islam in China.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Qalam

A qalam (قلم) is a type of reed pen. Sini (script) and qalam are Islamic calligraphy.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Safavid art

Safavid art is the art of the Iranian Safavid dynasty from 1501 to 1722, encompassing Iran and parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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Sinicization

Sinicization, sinofication, sinification, or sinonization (from the prefix, 'Chinese, relating to China') is the process by which non-Chinese societies or groups are acculturated or assimilated into Chinese culture or society, particularly the language, societal norms, culture, and ethnic identity of the Han Chinese—the largest ethnic group of China.

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Tareq Rajab Museum

The Tareq Rajab Museum is located in Kuwait and houses an extensive collection of artefacts accumulated over a fifty-year period commencing in the 1950s.

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Tashkent

Tashkent, or Toshkent in Uzbek, is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan.

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The David Collection

The David Collection (Davids Samling) is a museum of fine and applied art in Copenhagen, Denmark, built around the private collections of lawyer, businessman and art collector C. L. David.

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Thuluth

Thuluth (ثُلُث, or خَطُّ الثُّلُثِ,; ثلث, Sols; Turkish: Sülüs, from "one-third") is an Arabic script variety of Islamic calligraphy. Sini (script) and Thuluth are Arabic calligraphy and Islamic calligraphy.

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Xiao'erjing

Xiao'erjing, often shortened to Xiaojing (the 'original script' being the Perso-Arabic script), is a Perso-Arabic script used to write Sinitic languages, including Lanyin Mandarin, Zhongyuan Mandarin, Northeastern Mandarin, and Dungan.

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Yuan dynasty

The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.

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Zhengde Emperor

The Zhengde Emperor (26 October 149120 April 1521), personal name Zhu Houzhao (朱厚㷖), was the 11th emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigned from 1505 to 1521.

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See also

Arabic calligraphy

• Abu Saymeh
• Amiri (typeface)
• Arabic calligraphy
• Basmala
• Baṛī ye
• Dhikr
• Diwani
• Hijazi script
• Islamic calligraphy
• Jeli Thuluth
• Kairouani calligraphy
• Kufic
• Maghrebi script
• Mashq
• Muhaqqaq
• Naskh (script)
• Rayhani script
• Reqa'
• Ruqʿah script
• Sini (script)
• Tawqi
• Thuluth
• Word heaping

Chinese calligraphy

• Babao seal paste
• Big-character poster
• Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru (Huang Tingjian calligraphy)
• Brush pot
• Century Mountain
• Chinese calligraphy
• Chinese calligraphy tattoos
• Comments on the Biography of Ni Kuan
• Copybook (calligraphy)
• Daiyuexuan writing brush
• Double Happiness (calligraphy)
• Duilian (poetry)
• Fai chun
• Fangsong
• Folding screen
• Four Treasures of the Study
• Houdian writing brush
• Hsieh Guan-chiao
• Huaisu's Autobiography
• Ink brush
• Inkstick
• Inkstone
• Korean calligraphy
• Lantingji Xu
• Leung Long Chau
• List of Shuowen Jiezi radicals
• Lệnh thư
• Marguerite Müller-Yao
• Microcalligraphy (Chinese)
• Shizhoupian
• Shu Pu
• Sini (script)
• Thousand Character Classic in Cursive Script by Zhao Ji
• Three perfections
• Water-dropper (calligraphy)
• Xuan paper

Islamic calligraphy

• Abu Saymeh
• Arabic calligraphy
• Banna'i
• Bannai script
• Diwani
• Firman
• Hamid Aytaç
• Hilya
• Islamic calligraphy
• Micrography
• Muraqqa
• Naskh (script)
• Nastaliq
• Persian calligraphy
• Qalam
• Rayhani script
• Shamsa
• Sini (script)
• Society of Iranian Calligraphists
• Taliq script
• The Musalman
• Thuluth
• Tughra
• Yaqut al-Musta'simi

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sini_(script)

Also known as Sini calligraphy, Sini script.