Reqā'
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Reqāʿ (Arabic: رِقَاع, romanized: Riqāʿ) is one of the six scripts of Arabic calligraphy used primarily for letters, edicts, or manuscripts.[1] Reqa' was used for private correspondence on small papers or for nonreligious books and texts. Ibn al-Nadim mentioned in Al-Fihrist that the inventor of Reqaʿ was al-Fadl ibn Sahl.[citation needed] This script was one of the most popular scripts in the Ottoman Empire. Reqaʿ was gradually simplified by other calligraphers, and was changed into a form called Ruqʿah (رُقعة) or Riqʿah (رِقعة), which is now the most common handwriting script in the Arab world.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Proportional Scripts". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
- ↑ Dehkhodā, Ali Akbar (1999) [1945], Lughat'nāmah تألیف علی اکبر دهخدا (in Persian), Tehran: Tehran University, ISBN 964-03-9617-6
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