Sini (script)

Sini (from Arabic: صيني‎, Ṣīnī, "Chinese") is a calligraphic style used in China for the Arabic script. It can refer to any type of Chinese Arabic calligraphy, but is commonly used to refer to one with thick and tapered effects such as seen in Chinese calligraphy. It is used extensively in mosques in Eastern China and to a lesser extent in Gansu, Ningxia and Shaanxi.

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One famous Sini calligrapher is Hajji Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang.

Calligraphy
  • The names of Allah in Chinese Arabic Sini Script
  • Chinese Qur'an
  • Quran with Chinese translation recorded in both Arabic script of Xiao'erjing and Chinese scripts
  • Qur'anic Manuscript in Sini script
  • A book on law in Arabic, with a parallel Chinese translation in the Xiao'erjing Arabic script, published in Tashkent in 1899
  • Calligraphy on a plaque in the Great Mosque of Xi'an in Sini script
  • An example of the Sini script
  • Taḥmīd ("Praise be to God") in Arabic Ṣīnī-style calligraphy at the Great Mosque of Xi'an

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