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Qahiri is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kufic">Kufic</a> typeface based on the modernized and regularized old manuscript Kufic calligraphy style of the late master of Arabic calligraphy,
<a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87_(%D8%AE%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%B7)">Mohammad Abdul Qadir</a>.
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Following the convention of naming Kufic styles after the cities they appeared in, Qahiri (قاهري) is named after the city of Cairo, Egypt (القاهرة).
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To contribute, see <a href="https://github.com/alif-type/qahiri">github.com/alif-type/qahiri</a>
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