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. 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]

This article is about (رقاع), the traditional hand of the six proportional scripts. For the hand for fast writing developed in the 19th century (رقعة), see Ruqʿah script.

References
  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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