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ALEX
4th March 2019, 07:27 AM
Here is the small silver brooch with what seems to be a stylized Arabic inscription. Hope our Arabic speaking colleagues will be able to translate it.
Thanks in advance.

Battara
4th March 2019, 07:46 PM
I think the first word on the right is “Allah”

Bob A
5th March 2019, 04:03 AM
Squared Kufic style of Arabic.

There's some interesting examples of this in the following link; you'll need to scroll down a bit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kufic

Bob A
5th March 2019, 04:04 AM
Dupe

ALEX
8th March 2019, 10:06 AM
Thank you Bob and Battara,
I agree it is a Kufic style. I'd be interested to know if such "Kufic style" can be read/translated by someone who reads Arabic.