Reqa'

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

^ "Proportional Scripts". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
^ Ali Akbar Dehkhoda (1945), Dehkhoda Dictionary [Farhang-e Dehkhoda] (in German), Tehran University, ISBN 9789640396179 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

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[1] "Proportional Scripts". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2023-04-21.

[2] Ali Akbar Dehkhoda (1945), Dehkhoda Dictionary [Farhang-e Dehkhoda] (in German), Tehran University, ISBN 9789640396179 {{citation}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

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