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Stamps with Arabic/Persian/Arabic-style script only

Match the inscription or the image. Be aware that text is usually read from right to left and can be stylized and may not match exactly. We will try provide a useful number of examples. No blame for just matching up the image or overprint design.

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Arabic script is often rendered in shapes, like tughras, and so it is for some country names or identifiers on stamps. These are now on a separate page here. If country names are in a somewhat linear form, particularly in a more-or-less rectangular tablet, they should be found on this page.

Unclassified
 File:Hejaz 1922 sherif.jpg|Stamps in this basic design are stamps of Hejaz. Overprinted or surcharged, they are from either Hejaz or Jordan. See: Hejaz, Jordan File:Hejaz railway revenue.jpg|Stamps overprinted/surcharged on this basic design are stamps of Hejaz. This is a Hejaz Railway revenue stamp. See: Hejaz File:Jordan postal tax.jpg|Jordan, postal tax stamp. See: Jordan – back of the book issues File:Jordan POSTAGE on tax.jpg|Jordan. See: Jordan File:Jordan 1922 ovpt violet.jpg|Jordan File:Jordan 1341 ovpt.jpg|Jordan File:Jhalawar 1p.jpg|Jhalawar, an Indian feudatory state. See: Jhalawar File:Jhalawar half a.jpg|Jhalawar File:Faridkot 1 folus.jpg|Faridkot, a feudatory Indian state. See: Faridkot File:Faridkot 1p II.jpg|Faridkot, a feudatory Indian state. This version of a very similar stamp was never issued. See: Faridkot File:Faridkot bogus.jpg|bogus Faridkot stamp produced by that Indian state for sale to collectors. See: Faridkot File:Hyderabad 1a reprint.jpg|Hyderabad, a feudatory Indian state File:Hyderabad half a square.jpg|Hyderabad, a feudatory state of India File:Witu 5th issue.jpg|Witu, a German protectorate. See: Witu File:Egypt first 20p.jpg|Egypt File:Egypt Farouk photo.jpg|Egypt File:Egypt Sphinx I.jpg|was your guess Egypt? You are correct. File:Bahrain war tax.jpg|Bahrain war tax stamp. See: Bahrain File:Bahrain 1974 war tax.jpg|Bahrain war tax stamp File:Sudan 35m animals offic.jpg|Sudan official stamp. See: Sudan File:Saudi bogus triangle.png|bogus Saudi Arabia stamp. It exists in several values/colors. 

Afghanistan
 File:Afg 1894 1rupee.jpg|1894 1 rupee value File:Afg 1898 1316 2ab yellow.jpg|1898 2ab File:Afg 30pa smaller royal star.jpg|30p small royal star File:Afg 1907 2ab .jpg|1907 2ab value File:Afg 1928 9th anniv indep.jpg|1928 15 pul 9th anniversary of independence File:Afg 20p 13th anniv.jpg|1931 20p 13th anniversary of independence File:Afg 1934 16th indepen.jpg|1934 50p 16th anniversary of independence File:Afg 1948 35p Children.jpg|1948 35p Childrens Day File:Afg 1953 Pashtunistan.jpg|1953 35p Pashtunistan Day File:Afg 1953 35th indep.jpg|1953 35p 35th anniverary of independence File:Afg 1957 pashtunistan.jpg|1957 50p Pashtunistan Day 
 * A number of earlier designs have the coat of arms of Afghanistan, a mosque with two small crossed cannons below (and not hot dogs).
 * Beginning in the 1930s, the currency is given in pul or poul.
 * See: Afghanistan

Persian jo.png
or = Iran, used in the Pahlavi era. Stamps were inscribed in Persian script only, 1936-49.  File:Iran Pah I.jpg File:Iran bridge.jpg File:Iran Pahl 2 20R.jpg File:Iran Shah 2.jpg File:Iran official.jpg|1958 official File:Iran 1948 semi.jpg|1948 semipostal File:Iran 1941 offic.jpg|official stamp with the characteristic lion and rising sun emblem File:Iran 1928 3kr air on rev.jpg|1928 airmail  = Iran, postal tax stamp. Note the characters at left are the same as the Iranian stamp inscription.  File:Iran postal tx.jpg|See the inscription between the leaf-like decorations 

Turkey 2 inscrip.png
Turkey 1867 top inscription. See: Turkey – Ottoman Empire  File:Turkey 20pa inscrip 2.jpg| 

Turkey inscr 3.png
Turkey 1869 top inscription. See: Turkey – Ottoman Empire.  File:Turkey 10pa lilac small inscr.jpg| 

Turkey 4 inscrip.png
Turkey top inscription 1874-75 issue. See: Turkey – Ottoman Empire  File:Turkey 4th inscr 1pi.jpg 

Pahang script.png
Malayan state Pahang  File:Pahang 30c.jpg 

Turkey 1 inscr.png
Turkey, top inscription on 1865 issues. See: Turkey – Ottoman Empire.  File:Turkey shor inscrip B.jpg|1865 1pi postage due </Gallery>

Turkey inscr 5.png
Turkey top inscription on the 1876 issue. See: Turkey – Ottoman Empire.  File:Turkey long ovpt surch.jpg| File:Turkey 1p orange long inscr.jpg| </Gallery>

Mustahaq.png
Mustahaq = "tax" = postage due.  File:Jordan 1925 due.jpg|Jordan postage due. See: Jordan – back of the book issues File:Hussein due ovpt.jpg|Jordan postage due. A slightly different script style. </Gallery>

Muscat.png
Muscat ("Al Busaid 1363").  File:Muscat 9p.jpg| </Gallery>

Centimos.png
"centimos"  File:Fr off in Morocco dual.jpg|France – offices in Morocco. See: France – offices in Morocco </Gallery>

Jordan first ovpt script.png
 File:Jordan first ovpt.jpg|Jordan, first issue overprint (1920). See: Jordan </Gallery>

Perlis script.png
Malayan state of Perlis.  File:Perlis 3c Raja.jpg </Gallery>

Perak script.png
Malayan state Perak.  File:Perak 1c.jpg </Gallery>

Trengganu script.png
Malayan state of Trengganu.  File:Trengannu Sultan.jpg </Gallery>

Kelantan script.png
Malayan state of Kelantan  File:Kelantan Ibrahim 8c.jpg </Gallery>

Negri Sembilan script.png
Malayan state Negri Sembilan.  File:Negri Sembilan 5c script arms.jpg </Gallery>

Selangor script.png
Malayan state Selangor.  File:Selangor mosque.jpg File:Selangor 2dollar.jpg File:Selangor 8c.jpg </Gallery>

Hejaz script.png
Hejaz. An example where the letters can be drawn in artful and widely stylized writing. See: Hejaz  File:Hejaz 1916 quarter pi.jpg|not in the central script design and split into two tablets File:Hejaz eighth pi roul.jpg|above the central script design File:Hejaz halfpi 1916.jpg|above the central script design File:Hejaz 1916 1pi.jpg|above the central script design File:Hejaz 1917 1pa.jpg|stacked in two lines in the right tablet </Gallery>

Hejaz and Nejd script II.png
Hejaz and Nejd.  File:Hejaz-Nejd half g small.jpg|See: Hejaz and Nejd </Gallery>

UAR EGYPT inscr.png
United Arab Republic  File:UAR second due.jpg|United Arab Republic Egypt postage due. See: United Arab Republic </Gallery>

Hejaz and Nejd script.png
Hejaz and Nejd  File:Hejaz-Nejd half pi.jpg|Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd. See: Nejd File:Hejaz-Nejd 5pi.jpg|Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd </Gallery>

Libya inscrip III.png
Libya country inscription used c.1970-77, with and without "LAR". The dots at bottom can be more closely spaced with the other characters. <Gallery widths=200px heights=200px> File:Libya 1970 communication.jpg|See: Libya </Gallery>

Libya fancy script.png
Libya, Libyan Arab Republic in fancy stylized script. <Gallery widths=200px heights=200px> File:Libya youth.jpg|Libya (Libyan Arab Repubic). See: Libya </Gallery>

Bahawalpur script A.png
Bahawalpur. <Gallery widths=180px heights=200px> File:Bahawalpur official.jpg|Pakistani province Bahawalpur official. See: Bahawalpur File:Bahawalpur indian ovpt.jpg|Pakistani province Bahawalpur. A similar but different inscription overall as shown in the section header. </Gallery>

Lib ya Jamahiriya script.png
Libya (Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) <Gallery widths=200px heights=200px>

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