Ardwan AlSabti

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Ardwan AlSabti Graphic designer in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. In 2011, he made the squarish typeface Mandaicana, about which he writes: Mandaicana is one of the few Mandaic type[faces] which exist in the world. Mandaic, the most Southeastern Aramaic dialect spoken in antiquity in Babylonia (Mesene, Characene, Khuzistan), reflects similarities to Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, both belonging to the Eastern Middle Aramaic branch. Although most scholars located the origin of the baptizing community in the East Jordan regions (Mark Lidzbarski, Rudolf Macuch, Kurt Rudolph) the Mandaeans are considered to spent a large part of their still controversial and mysterious history alongside the big rivers (Euphrates, Tigris, Karunriver) in the southern borderland between present-day Iraq and Iran. This was followed by Ardwan Malka and Englaiscana (2011). In 2018, he designed Ardwan Lidzbarski, which is based on the Mandaic handwriting of German scientist Mark Lidzbarski. Ardwan Manuscript (2019) is a cursive font based on Mandaic manuscripts. In 2021, he published Ardwan Drower, a mandaic font based on Ethel Stefana Drower's handwriting and philosophy. Lady Drower was a British cultural anthropologist who studied the Middle East and its cultures. She was regarded as the main specialist in Mandaeism and authored the book The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran.	EXTERNAL LINKS Ardwan AlSabti Behance page Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Assyrian/Syriac fonts ⦿ Dutch type design ⦿ Type design in Iran ⦿