Maghribi script

Maryam Ekhtiar treats maghribi as a regional script, developed and used mainly in Spain and North Africa. ¹ Qur'ans from the Islamic West, she notes, diverged early from developments farther east and were nearly always written on parchment in this script exclusive to the region. ²

Its origins are not confirmed, but some scholars hold it to be the only script derived from kufic. Unlike kufic it was written freehand and did not follow set proportions; it was limited to manuscripts and rarely appeared on buildings or objects. ² Parchment remained in use for Qur'ans in North Africa and Spain into the fourteenth century, long after it was abandoned elsewhere. ^{3 2}

A bifolium from the Andalusian "Pink Qur'an" of the thirteenth century, in bold maghribi, with verse numbers in abjad letters. ²