Reqa'

Reqāʿ (Arabic: رِقَاع) 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 his book Al-Fehrest, that the inventor of Reqa' script was Al-Fadl ibn Sahl.^{[citation needed]} The script was one of the most popular scripts in the Ottoman Empire. Reqa' was gradually simplified by other calligraphers and was changed to a new script called Ruqʿah (رُقعة) or Riqʿah (رِقعة), which is now the most common handwritten script in Arab countries.^[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

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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

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